MAORI BURIAL.
DISCOVERY OF SKELETON. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, Nov. 28. Commenting on the finding of a human skeleton near Gore, Mr H. D. Skinner, lecturer ih ethnology at the Otago University, stated, to-day that the practice of burying the dead with their knees drawn up under the chin was followed by the Maoris before European times, approximately 50 per cent of Maori burials being conducted in this way. There was no reason to doubt that this was a case of a Maori burial, but it was impossible to say whether it was carried out a thousand or a hundred years ago.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 310, 28 November 1936, Page 9
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102MAORI BURIAL. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 310, 28 November 1936, Page 9
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