THE WAITARA SWAMP SEARCH

1961. Reprinted from The Records of the Canterbury Museum, Vol. VII, No. IV, pp 303-326, 15th August, 1961. " The Waitara swamp search, represents the first large scale controlled excavation of an artefact-bearing swamp. It has reveled swamps as bona fide archaeological sites of great potential, from the general conclusion that wamps adjacent to centres of pre-historic settlement served as repositories for the curing and seasoning of wooden artefacts on a large and regular scale....The Waitara district, in which the project was carried out in January-February 1960, has proved unique...for the number of carvings recovered during the course of European settlement." Includes Bibliography, 7 text drawings with excavation plans/site and 7 plates with photographs of findings. Stapled paper covers-one staple rusty. ex.mus. stamp/numbers on front cover. Stapled to inside back cover, business card of the Director of Taranaki Museum: Rigby T. E. Allan. On first page of text signed by him "With compliments From Taranaki Museum, Rigby Allan Director. Covers mildly soiled otherwise Good +. Interior is tight, clean and Very Good +.. Paper Cover. Good. Illus. by Plates, Text drawings/Figures. Size: Approx. 7 1/4" x 9 3/4". New Zealand.