H Hamilton
(Person)

A korapa trap for taking small birds. — H. Hamilton photo A patua or papa totara, a bark basket. — H. Hamilton photo A poha or seaweed vessel containing preserved food products. This vessel is covered with strips of bark; its lower end is inserted in albasket. — H. Hamilton photo A simple device for snaring birds. — H. Hamilton photo A stone mortar. — H. Hamilton photo Bone points of bird spears. — H. Hamilton photo Dog Skin Cape. — The skins have been cut into narrow strips, and these strips sewn on to a ground consisting of a fabric woven from Phormium fibre. — H. Hamilton photo Fig. 2: On Mt Dundas, Tararuas, January 1911. Photograph by H. Girdlestone. Left: W. H. Field; centre: H. Hamilton (with cap); right: B. C. Aston, with two unnamed survey assistants. (National Museum Collection) Kauhika. Hafted stone implements used in cutting or sawing hard stone, such as nephrite. — H. Hamilton photo Line sinkers. — H. Hamilton photo Maori cordage made of dressed Phormium fibre. — H. Hamilton photo Maori cordage made of undressed Phormium fibre. — H. Hamilton photo Model of Double Canoe With Lateen Sail, Western Pacific. — Photo by H. Hamilton Mutu kaka. Snaring perches for taking the bush parrot. — H. Hamilton photo Patu aruhe, fern root pounders, used in pounding the rhizomes of bracken (Pteris) that formed an important food supply. — H. Hamilton photo Pouraka trap for taking small fish (kokopu) in Lake Taupo. — H. Hamilton photo Pu tutu, a basket strainer used in separating poisonous seeds of tutu berries from the pulp of the fruit. — H. Hamilton photo The tools of the neolithic Maori. The toki or stone adze, sometimes hafted longitudinally and used as a huge chisel. — H. Hamilton photo Three Phormium fibre cloaks with taniko borders and one feather cape. — H. Hamilton photo Three trolling hooks (pa kahawai) — H. Hamilton photo Two Pu torino in Dominion Museum, Wellington. — H. Hamilton photo Two waka kereru—troughs filled with water and set with snares for taking wood pigeons. — H. Hamilton photo Wood-working tools. Stone chisels and gouges. — H. Hamilton photo

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