VALUABLE MAORI CARVINGS.
AUCKLAND, December 21. The Auckland Museum to-day secured possession of the finest specimens of Maori carvings known to- exiet in New Zealand. There is undoubted authority to prove that these carvings are genuine work done before the days when thef pakeha introduced the steel tools, as they are traced back to between 1780 and 1800. The reason that little has heretofore been known regarding them is that for a oea. tnry the boards lay. buried irii ttte sand in a cave on the East Coast to prevent them from being stolen in the raids of the dreaded Ngapuhi of the north. The carvings are portions of a pataka, or food house, and came originally from Whangapararoa, just west of Cape Runaway, on the East Coast.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3015, 27 December 1911, Page 65
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128VALUABLE MAORI CARVINGS. Otago Witness, Issue 3015, 27 December 1911, Page 65
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