SALE OF MAORI CURIOS
NOT PART OF HOCKEN COLLECTION DUNEDIN, December 6. Dr Ben ham, Curator of tlie Otago University Museum, writes: “As custodian of the Hocken collection given to this museum some twenty years ago, 1 wish to assure the j üblic that the Maori curios purchased at a sale in London and stated in a cable in yesterday’s issue to have ‘originally belonged to the Hocken collection,’ never formed part of the gift to this museum. Dr. Hocken*s gilt is intact. None of the articles has been iemoved from this museum, though his specimens are now incorporated v-ith the much more extensive series ol Maori objects now in exhibition lieie. The cablegram in question read: “Mr Moss Davis, olf Auckland, purchased at a sale by auction Maori curios which originally belonged to the Hocken collection. They included n tomahawk, a fish spear, a large bone tiki, and rare neck ornaments. 'I bey are being sent to the Auckland .Museum.” ‘
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 December 1929, Page 8
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