Identifier: handbooktoethnog00brit (find matches)
Title: Handbook to the ethnographical collections
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography Joyce, Thomas Athol, 1878-1942 Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945
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Publisher: (London) : Printed by order of the Trustees
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Fig. 150.—Figure of a Maori chief wearing garments of woven flax, on his head two huia feathers, and round his neck a jade tiki. In his hand is the weapon called hani or taiaha. New Zealand.
the arts of invention and manufacture. Thus physically, intellectually and culturally they stand at the head of the Polynesian peoples. The clothes of the Maori were made almost entirely of flax

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