MANUSCRIPT
Takaanui Tarakawa - Whakamaramatanga o te pepa o te Hoenga mai o Te Arawa raua ko Tainui i Hawaiki
- Date
- [18--]
- By
- Tarakawa, Takaanui Hohaia, 1852-1919; Gudgeon, Walter Edward, 1841-1920; Smith, Stephenson Percy, 1840-1922
- Reference
- MS-Papers-1187-175
- Description
Copy of some of Takaanui Tarakawa's papers in S P Smith's hand including many whakapapa for Te Arawa, Tainui, Tokomaru, Horouta, Takitimu, Tuamatua and others. The papers also include information about the arrival of the Te Arawa canoe and the Kurahaupo canoe, the legend of Hatupatu, details of Rongomaiwahine's relationship with Kahungunu, and discussions of Maori customary concepts including hau, hoa, mana, kura, whatukura and kawa; Some of this material is in JPS V 2 p168-171, 199-207. Also includes letter and notes to Smith from Walter Gudgeon severely critical of Tarakawa's whakapapa.
Quantity: 1 folder(s).
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original - Microfilm copies available in Katherine Mansfield Reading Room. Use MS-Copy-Micro-0755-22
- Part of
- Polynesian Society: Records / Ethnological manuscripts collection
- Format
- 1 folder(s), Manuscripts
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