VALUE OF MAORI PRESENTS
AUCKLAND, June 18
The total value of the Native presents given to the Duke and L'uchess of York at Rotorua are now estimated at between £lOUO and £2000. Victoria Taitoko Kemp, of Wanganui, and her own people alone gave 87 fine mats, worth probably on an average about £5 each. The greenstone weapons given were worth a very large sum. One of those had been in the hands of the donor's tribe for some thirteen generations. Three of the whalebone weapons presented were lortg flat swords made from ribs of the sperm whale and ornamented with tufts of white dogs' hair near the handle. These relics of the past, are far rarer than the other weapons, and their v ilue in Maori eyes is very considerable.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXV, Issue 139, 19 June 1901, Page 2
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