TY  - BOOK
AU  - Best,Elsdon
TI  - The pā Māori: an account of the fortified villages of the Māori in the pre-European and modern times : illustrating methods of defence by means of ramparts, fosses, scarps and stockades 
T2  - Bulletin (Dominion Museum (N.Z.)
SN  - 1877385085 (paperback)
AV  - DU423.W35 B47 2005
U1  - 623.108999442 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Wellington, N.Z.
PB  - Te Papa Press
KW  - Fortification
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - Architecture, Māori
KW  - Māori (New Zealand people)
KW  - Warfare
KW  - Tūmatauenga
KW  - reo
KW  - Pā tūwatawata
KW  - Hangarau
KW  - Kōrero nehe
KW  - Hoahoanga whare
KW  - Pā
KW  - Pakanga
N1  - Originally published: Wellington, N.Z. : Board of Māori Ethnological Research for the Dominion Museum, 1927. (Dominion Museum bulletin ; no. 6); Includes bibliographical references (p. 440-444) and index; Introductory remarks -- Description of the pā Māori or fortified village -- Methods of construction, attack and defence, protective talismans and ceremonial opening of a new fortified village -- Detailed description of old fortified villages -- The modern pā Māori, illustrating changes made by the Māori in his defensive works after the introduction of firearms -- Fortified villages of Polynesia, Melanesia etc; Also available in an electronic ed
UR  - http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-BesPaMa.html
ER  -