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removed so as to form a kind of handle, or for fixing it to a piece of wood. A 

 similar specimen is also in tlie Otago Museum. As far as I am aware no 

 implement resembling this curious tool has been described from Europe. 

 There are some flint implements of the so-called oval-shaped hatchet type, 

 pi-esenting the same peculiar characteristics, and again some smaller flint 

 knives resembling those found near Abbeville, in France. I may here observe 

 that I also found two smaller spear-head implements, which in every respect 

 resemble those of the mammoth and rhinoceros beds in Europe ; intermediate 

 forms are also present. 



As I stated previously, this locality shows ti-aces of having been afterwards 

 inhabited, from the fact that true Maori ovens, for ordinary cooking as well as 

 for the preparation of the cabbage tree, are not unfrequent ; moreover, the 

 Maori track leading to the south passed over the same ground. It is, there- 

 fore, not surprising that a few greenstone adzes, and some other well polished 

 Maori implements, should have been turned up by the plough. 



Another more interesting discovery was made by Mr. Cannon ; a cache, 

 containing twenty-two pieces of roughly chipped Palla, a green silicious rock, 

 occurring only on the northern side of the Gawler Downs, between the forks 

 of the Hinds. They had evidently been brought a distance of over fifty miles 

 to be shaped into the proper form by polishing them. They had already been 

 prepared to take finally the more recent forms ado])ted by the Maoris, which 

 at once distinguishes them from the moa-hunter implements. This is the 

 more evident, since, in many localities, polished Maori adzes have been obtained 

 manufactured from this peculiar green silicious rock. "When 1 first found it 

 on the Gawler Downs, about seven years ago, I was struck by the large 

 amount of chips lying about, which led me to believe that somebody struck by 

 the flinty appearance and fine colour of this rock, which besides this spot, 

 occurs only in Transylvania, had amused himself by making specimens. I am 

 now satisfied that the Maoris visited the spot in question to obtain this rock 

 for their stone implements, carrying it away such long distances. Mr. John 

 Davies Enys found some of the Palla adzes in the Upper Waimakariri 

 country. 



I searched for a long time, anxious to obtain any other relic which might 

 show that the pre-historic race had used any durable ornament made of stone 

 or bone, such as ear or nose ornaments, amulets to wear round the neck, 

 bracelets, or needles and pins made of bone. At last we discovered two j^ieces 

 of the ulna of the wandering Albatioss (JDiomedea exulans), which, at their 

 proximal end and below the condyle, had evidently been bored thi-ough by the 

 hand of man. Both, however, were broken in the middle of the shaft, the 

 lower portion of both being missing, and they had therefore probably been 

 thrown away. Of course it is impossible to say for what purpose these neat 



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