Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute . Jtowditch Islzwi clei ATLcien6 Mauori Ta£booiri(fcelled. Mdkokizri . To TUxLs£ira£e Toher ~: IV.—MISCELLANEOUS. Art. XLV.—Ancient Alphabets in Polynesia. By E. Tregear, [Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 10th August, 1887.] Plate XX. New Zealand possesses few relics of archaeological interest, andfewer still remains of what may be considered as pictures in the cave of the Weka Pass, and other cave-paintings, are mere rude pictures, in which, apparently, therehas been
Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute . Jtowditch Islzwi clei ATLcien6 Mauori Ta£booiri(fcelled. Mdkokizri . To TUxLs£ira£e Toher ~: IV.—MISCELLANEOUS. Art. XLV.—Ancient Alphabets in Polynesia. By E. Tregear, [Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 10th August, 1887.] Plate XX. New Zealand possesses few relics of archaeological interest, andfewer still remains of what may be considered as pictures in the cave of the Weka Pass, and other cave-paintings, are mere rude pictures, in which, apparently, therehas been no effort to produce anything beyond mere represen-tation, and not rising even to the rank of investigation and study of these drawings may evolvehidden meanings in some of the smaller marks, but at presentthere is no light on the subject. In other parts of the Pacificinhabited by the fair Polynesians there are many localitiesworthy of the study of the archaeologist. The Stonehenge remains in the Tonga Islands ; the pyramid
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