A PRICELESS GIFT.
TO OTAGO MUSEUM
AIOA EGG AND MAORI CURIOS. (BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATIONDUNEDIN, March 28. The family of the late Alexander Thomson have handed over to the Otago Museum a priceless collection of Maori and other curios, chief o.f which is a huge nma egg. There is only one other complete moa egg in New Zealand, wnicu aiso as in the museum. A third is said to exist in a collection in England . *
Other articles include spears from Australia. New, Guinea, the Solomons, and the New Hebrides, a Japanese sword of exquisite temper, pineapple clubs, bamboo billows from Fiji, and Maori adzes, whose size and perfection make them the gems of the collection. There is also a Maori mat which has n distinguished history, having been owned by Kereopa, the murderer of the Rev. Afr A T olkner at Opotiki. The Afaori section consists of 373 stone implements.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 28 March 1925, Page 7
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150A PRICELESS GIFT. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 28 March 1925, Page 7
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