Dendroglyphs Of The Chatham Islands

by Christina Jefferson

Hardcover, 1956

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Publication

The Polynesian Society (1956)

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An astonishing record of the rākau momori (dendroglyphs, tree carvings) of Rēkohu (Chatham Island), documented by Christina Jefferson over six field trips from 1948 to 1955. Now an invaluable cultural record of these Moriori artefacts, many of which have now been lost due to the death of the
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trees on which they were carved - almost all likely before 1835.
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