MAORI TIKI.
FOUND IN CENTRAL A A [ERIC A WHENCE. ITS ORIGIN.Tho recent discovery ot a tiki in Central America has considerably interested scientific circles in New Zealand. ... Commenting at a meeting ot the Auckland Institute Air. George Graham said it did not seem so strange after all. Prior to the settlement of this country many JMaoris went abroad in whalers, and there was_ a fairly close connection between New Zealand and. for instance, the South American const It was his own theory, too, that the famous j Kaitaia lintel —inciclentallv. not a lintel at all—was brought to'the north of Auckland Irom Borneo by one of the early French voyagers who refitted there.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 10450, 3 December 1927, Page 4
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113MAORI TIKI. Gisborne Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 10450, 3 December 1927, Page 4
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