The Māori / by Eldon Best.

By:

Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931 [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Memoirs of the Polynesian Society ; volume VPublication details: Wellington, NZ : Harry H. Tombs, 1924.Description: 2 volumes (xv, 528, ix, 637 pages) : illustrations ; 21 cmISBN:

9781877346354
1877346357
9781877346392
187734639X

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

993.01 23

Contents:

Vol. 1. 1. Physical & mental characteristics of the Maori -- 2. The Maori as a seafarer & coloniser:- the peopling of New Zealand -- 3. Traditional history & its teaching: the whare wananga, or school of learning -- 4. Cosmogony & anthropogeny -- 5. Myth & folk lore -- 6. Religious beliefs & practices of the Maori: Maori magic -- 7. Social customs -- 8. Social customs (cont.) ; Marriage customs.

Vol. 2. 9. Social customs (cont.) ; Customs pertaining to birth -- 10. Social customs (cont.) ; Customs pertaining to sickness, death, burial and exhumation -- 11. Social customs (cont.) ; The arts of pleasure: games and pastimes -- 12. Social customs (cont.) ; The arts of pleasure: vocal and instrumental music -- 13. The dawn of science: the rudiments of modern science as observed in maori usage -- 14. The art of war -- 15. The pa Maori or fortified village -- 16. Maori agriculture: its methods, implements and ceremonial -- 17. Fishing -- 18. Forest lore and woodcraft -- 19. Textile arts -- 20. Personal adornment -- 21. Dwelling houses and storehouses.

Summary: "The data contained in this sketch of Maori life and its activities in pre-European times is the result of an almost life-long interest in our native folk on the part of the writer [Elsdon Best]"--Preface (P. xi).

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Vol info	Copy number	Status	Barcode
Māoritanga	Pātea LibraryPlus Non Fiction	Māoritanga	305.899 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	volume 1		Available	I2165081
Māoritanga Reference	Pātea LibraryPlus Reference	Māoritanga	993.01 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Volume 1.		Not for loan	i2152424
Māoritanga	Pātea LibraryPlus Non Fiction	Māoritanga	305.899 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Volume two.		Available	I2165088
Milne Collection	Stratford Archive Room	Heritage	572.9931 BES (Browse shelf(Opens below))	volume 1	1	Not for Loan	A00055958

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"Originally published as Volume V of the Memoirs of the Polynesian Society, Wellington, 1924 and reissued 1941. This facsimile edition by Cadsonbury Publications 2011."

Includes bibliographical references (v. 1.: pages 481-483 ; v. 2.: p. 593-596) and index.

"The data contained in this sketch of Maori life and its activities in pre-European times is the result of an almost life-long interest in our native folk on the part of the writer [Elsdon Best]"--Preface (P. xi).

Text in English with some Maori.

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