AN INDIAN’S BONES
The spirit of one Indian can rest more peacefully now, the bones of its material self at last in a permanent grave. The bones, dug up in the highway by workmen at Duncan, 8.C., caused some mystery until Tom Colvin, testifying at a coroner’s inquiry, explained their presence. Fifty years ago, Tom said, when he was felling a tree to widen the same road, a wooden coffin fell from a limb. It contained the remains of an Indian, which, according to the burial custom of the coast tribe, had been placed there. Believing the bones would not again he disturbed, tne workmen had buried them in the road, Tom said.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 136, 10 June 1937, Page 3
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