Dr. Roger Duff describes the Māori burial site at Lake Hauroko in Fiordland. He talks about Māori exploration and settlement of Fiordland and describes a Māori burial site discovered there.
A local farmer found a cave on Mary Island, which contained the body of a Ngāti Mamoe chieftainess. Ngāti Mamoe had come to Fiordland in the 16th century. Archaeologists, including Dr. Duff, investigated the site. Using the method of Carbon 14, they dated the site at roughly 1660 AD.
Duff describes the burial site and burial attire of the woman in detail, including her intricate cloak. It was fortunate that the burial was made in a national park as the remains have been left in situ, with a grate over the cave entrance instead of being removed to a museum. This is a significant archaeological find as it was wholly intact whereas other sites had been looted.