﻿Haast. — Moas and Moa Hunters. 95 



fit, I obtained a great deal more information than I formerly possessed. In 

 fact, I was thus enabled to trace and examine the whole extent of the encamp- 

 ment from the banks of the Rakaia to the Little Eakaia, all across the 

 fields. 



During that visit the same gentleman handed over to me, as a presentation 

 to the Canterbury Museum, a fine series of Maoi-i and moa-hunters' stone 

 implements collected by him. 



In my first notes on the subject I explained that between the main river 

 and the Little Eakaia a small terrace exists about eight feet high, by which a 

 lower triangular flat is formed. The lines of the moa ovens and kitchen- 

 middens run in the same direction as this terrace, so that their position must 

 in some respects be in connection with that line. The ovens consist in the 

 centre of five to six rows, sometimes close together, sometimes at some distance 

 from each other, but near the banks of both rivers they diminish considerably 

 in numbei". 



Generally they are situated ten to twelve feet from each other, and are 

 either empty, nothing except loam and vegetable soil lying upon the stones of 

 which they are built, or they are filled with heaps of broken bones and chips 

 of chert and knives of sandstone ; this refuse sometimes also forming distinct 

 heaps in close proximity to the ovens. 



Besides this principal belt there are a few scattered ones on the open space 

 towards the first terrace, as well as immediately below it, of which one refuse 

 heap is of particular interest, to which I shall refer in the sequel. 



I have previously described the moa-hunter remains near the small watei'- 

 course bounding the triangular flat, and cannot add any new information, as I 

 did not make any more excavations in that portion of the fields. 



Before proceeding to an examination of the kitchen-middens of the moa- 

 hunters, I wish to allude to the numerous polished stone implements found 

 over the same property. In the small sketch map annexed to this paper I 

 have marked the principal localities. 



All over the fields numerous smaller polished stone implements are found 

 indiscriminately in and near the moa-hunter encampment, as well as away from 

 it. Many of them were picked up previously amongst the grass, but by far 

 the greater portion became exposed when the land was broken up by the 

 plough. 



In my first paper on this subject I have shown that long after the moa- 

 hunters had ceased to exist, this locality continued to be a favourite camping 

 ground of succeeding generations, who, in the course of ages, became more 

 civilized, as shown by their polished and more finished stone implements. 



Near the north-eastern boundary of the moa ovens, but in close vicinity 

 to them, Mr. Cannon, jxin., found a cache containing four large stone adzes. 



