OLD MAORI RELICS.
A FIELD FOR COLLECTORS. In the days of the early Maoris the Haast Pass was one of the routes used by the foray parties and also for the quest of the much-prized wai-pounamu, the "West Coast greenstone. A recent visitor to Okura was shown a sackful of ancient, adzes, which a local settler had ploughed up in the neighbourhood or found while engaged upon road-making between Haast and Okura. He had been told that there were -everal old ovens and "kitchen middens" "car the Haast. He was of opinion thai ! he ethnologist and tha curio hunter would find the district in the vicinity of the Haast River a prolific field in his search for tokens of an earlier age.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19344, 3 June 1926, Page 10
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122OLD MAORI RELICS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19344, 3 June 1926, Page 10
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