MAORI ANTIQUITIES.
DISPLAY IX DUXEDIX. Purchases made in London and now displayed in the Maori Hall of the Otago University Museum include.;! very fine toki routangata, or fighting adze, with carved handle and blade of semi-translucent mottled greenstone, a wooden marionette, a finely-carved wooden fishhook, the top of a "staff or toko toko, and two ancient and wellcarved weapons, patu and rakau. Of immediate local interest is a number of gifts, principally of Maori origin in Otago, lately received and classified. The most important of these is a beautifully finished black basalt adze, found in 1873 at Lovell’s Plat. The implement is triangular in cross section, and appears to be a marked local variety of a type whitdi is almost universal in the Cook Islands. A companion to this adze is one from Hampden, taken from the Chapman collection, and these two form what is considered the finest pair in the museum. Another recent gift is an exceptionally large and well-finished adze from Titipua Hills, n'car Hedgehope.—Wellington Dominion correspondent.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 16 August 1924, Page 7
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