MAORI HEADS IN LONDON
A GRUESOME COLLECTION
A man with ;i collection of skulls is Mr W. O. 01 man. of Ponders Road, Loudon, who commenced collecting tilings of interest- when he was seven. He started with an old sword •-ennd near Barnet in 1887. the year oi Queen Victoria's jubilee, and since then ho lias gone in for more savage trophies. Tie has eight heads of old Maori chiefs of New Zealand, one ol them being brought over by Ca-ptain Conk, and three by Captain James V» ilson. of Puff, in 1798. He obtained them some 25 years ago. Mr Olman aiso has the head of a chief of the Dorm people* of New Guinea. “Titov had the idea,” he explained, "that the head of a chief should he made to look Ike som thing more than human. So tb.-y loosened the skin round the skull and Buffed it with fibre, making a grotesque shape In the process the m>«o ~n!lered. and this was replaced With some pmifed and twisted cane.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11831, 12 January 1933, Page 3
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