CURIOUS RELICS.
DISCOVERIES AT WAIROA. UNLIKE MAORI UTENSILS. [ FROM OUR, OWN (.'OURESPONOENT, J $ HOTORUA, Saturday. Three curious pieces of stone, which may possibly be relics of an ancient people, form part of the collection of the conservator of fish and game iri Rotorua, Mr. A. Kean. Two of the pieces, of which one is almost an exact miniature of the other, are, shaped almost like solid pitchers. They are rounded almost as if they had been turned on a, poster's wheel and, although they cannot have been devised as vessels, appear to have been fashioned by some human agency. They are of a shape which might have enabled them to be used as pestles, but are not in any way similar to any known Maori utensils or tools. Both pieces are of a species of sandstone, and were found by Mr. Kean in the Wairoa district a| the bottom of deep outcrops of river metal. In each case they were found at a spot which indicated that I hey had been between 35 and 40 feet below the surface :• yet the actual places where they were found were 25 miles apart. The third piece is petrified wood, weighing several pounds. This, in itself, would not he remarkable, but oil both ends are cuts which havo obviously been made with a, species of axe. This piece was found with the larger of the two pestles, and from the depth at which if was found must have been buried for a very long period of time.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 21037, 23 November 1931, Page 10
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CURIOUS RELICS.
New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 21037, 23 November 1931, Page 10
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