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The Old Maori Water Bottles - (Te Ao Hou - No. 39 June 1962)

The Old Maori Water Bottles - (Te Ao Hou - No. 39 June 1962)
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The Old Maori Water Bottles - (Te Ao Hou - No. 39 June 1962)
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Te Ao Hou
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In the old days, when people had no pottery, they grew gourds to use as containers—to keep water in, and wild honey, and also meat, preserved in its own fat—such as rats, pigeons, tuis, and human flesh. Often they used carved wooden bowls too, and baskets of totara bark or flax. But they valued gourds very much, and went to a great deal of trouble ...

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June 1962
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Maori Affairs Department
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http://teaohou.natlib.govt.nz/journals/teaohou/issue/Mao39TeA/c18.html

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