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GREENSTONE IMPLEMENTS.
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land itself which now is ours has been on this day transferred to you for ever.”
Mr. James Cowan has preserved a tradition of a famous adze which was regarded as the abiding place of a spirit and possessing a special mana of its own. This implement, named Papataunaki, was the property of one Rua three centuries ago.
Figure 4.
A very curious adze-head (Figure 4) was exhibited in London in 1910. It was formed from a tiki[1], the head of which had
- ↑ See Chapter VI.
