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50 a century ago, that in future years many aboriginal curiosities would be discovered by European colonists, has been fully realised. It is at the Maori burying places that the most important finds have been made; for, as we have already seen, it has always been the custom of this people to bury with their dead the favourite weapons, ornaments and tools which their chiefs had held in high esteem.