THE ZooLocist—Auveust, 1875. 4561 
some of them remarkably well shaped,—amongst the kitchen mid- 
dens of the moa-hunters, but in the same deposits never any 
polished ones, and as the latter were mostly found in deep cdéches— 
and the locality had been, according to Maori tradition, a favourite 
encampment of theirs—it was natural to be led to the conclusion 
that the few polished stone implements turned up here and there 
by the plough were like the cdches of later (Maori) origin. 
Having determined that the beds were perfectly undisturbed, 
with the exception of the few cases already alluded to, it was of 
great importance to ascertain if, besides the stone implements 
found amongst the kitchen middens of the moa-hunters,.no other 
objects of human workmanship were associated with them, in order 
to gain some more insight into the daily life of this primitive 
people. However, if we consider that the cave was only occa- 
sionally frequented, we could not expect to find many objects of 
that nature, unless a fortunate accident had preserved to us some 
of their more valued utensils and ornaments; and, although I was 
rather disappointed in that respect, the few objects found proved 
sufficiently that the moa-hunters made their domestic tools neatly, 
as is generally the custom of primitive races. In the dirt bed above 
the agglomerate, in the anterior portion of the cave, we obtained a 
needle, 4°25 inches long by 0°20 inch broad, neatly finished, made 
of fhe humerus of a nelly (Ossi/raga gigantea), an awl made of the 
distal portion of the tibia of the same bird, doubtless used for 
making holes through which the needle was passed afterwards ; 
also the canine tooth of a dog, with a hole bored through it at its 
base, worn without doubt as an ornament. Amongst the pieces of 
wood collected from the lower beds, there is an apparatus for 
kindling fire, made of komaku (Carpodetes serratus),—the fire to be 
obtained by rubbing the stick lengthwise on the other flat piece,— 
several fragments of worked timber, fire-sticks, portions of spears 
and of canoes, the whole being so soft when excavated that it could 
easily be cut by the finger-nail. 
List of Objects found in the Lower or Moa-hunter Deposits. 
a. Remains of Mammals. 
Bones, human - - - - : = : Ee pik 
Bones of ziphoid whale - - - - - - 21408 
i» sea leopard (Stenorhynchus leptonya)  - : = 439 
» fur seal (Artocephalus lobatus (?) and A. cinereus) - 332 
