SKELETON OF MAORI
DISCOVERY AT THAMES. PROBABLY BURIED 100 YEARS. Thames, June 17. While digging a hole * in their garden to excavate shell, Mr. and Mrs. G. Hoffman, of Queen Street, Thames, unearthed the skeleton of a man. The lower jaw bone was shown to Dr. J. B. Liggins, who said it had been that of a Maori aged about 60 years. He considered the body to have been buried about 100 years, as the” teeth were those of a fern-root eater. The place where the bones were found was once a beach, and the theory is held that the Maori was drowned and his body washed up and covered by shell. The bones have been carefully collected and will be interred in tire Totara Maori cemetery.
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 June 1933, Page 5
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