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adzes; a Maori adze 20+ inches long and weighing 12 + pounds; fine 

 shark-tooth sacrificial knife (finer perhaps than those in the British 

 Museum (Fig. 152); two stone kapa pounders of unusual shape 

 and unknown origin ; a poi pounder from Tahiti, slightly broken 

 but of the best workmanship (Fig. 153). In the museum also 



152. SACRIFICIAI, KNIFE. 



were many carved receptacles for human bones (18 in all), and 

 innumerable Maori carvings, including several carved houses 

 and many parts of these. A curiously carved stone god of which 

 we were given a cast. Triangular adze like one described by 

 Giglioli; restauration of a Moa; models of a Pah and village. A 

 lot of Tuatara alive and in good condition. The Director's system 

 of storing photographs is very good, mounting prints in pasteboard 



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