MAORI WAHI-TAPU OR BURIAL-GROUND. Canoes, carved posts or tikis, ancl other memorials to the departed, were often to be seen in old Maori bunal-grounds. The two little houses, one raised on a high pole, like a whata, or food storehouse, are receptacles for the remains of chiefs
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Otago Witness, Issue 2649, 21 December 1904, Page 8 (Supplement)
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47MAORI WAHI-TAPU OR BURIAL-GROUND. Canoes, carved posts or tikis, ancl other memorials to the departed, were often to be seen in old Maori bunal-grounds. The two little houses, one raised on a high pole, like a whata, or food storehouse, are receptacles for the remains of chiefs Otago Witness, Issue 2649, 21 December 1904, Page 8 (Supplement)
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