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[Jim Eyles on archaeology in New Zealand].

Description:
On January 25, 1939, thirteen year old Jim Eyles made a great archaeological discovery on the Wairau boulder bank near Blenheim. Fifty years on, he talks about the find and about archaeology in New Zealand. "It was one of these things that one never knows what is going to turn up but I was most fortunate or successful in finding a moa's egg. And when I first found it, it was far from professio...
Display date:
1989
Location:
Easter Island / Rapa Nui
Format:
Sound
Collections:
Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
Contributors:
RNZ Collection
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Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
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Online
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