EARLY NEW ZEALAND TRAGEDY
MAORI WOMAN’S SKULI SPLIT BY ADZE I United I're-** A^mMationl HASTINGS, 28th June. Mute evidence of an early New ZeaI iano tragedy was brought to light when (the skull of a Maori woman, split by a greenstone adze, which was still wedged in the bone, wasTound on the beach at Porangahau. The adze is of indifferent quality A tiki and car pendants were discovered with the skeleton.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 29 June 1939, Page 4
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