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Puhiwahine; Gotty a Man of mystery
Date: 1949-1962
From: Jones, Pei Te Hurinui, 1898-1976 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-5220-045
Description: Includes a published copy of Puhiwahine : Maori poetess by Pei Te Hurinui Jones, 1961; correspondence, papers relating to the unveiling of the monument of the Ngati Tuwharetoa chieftainess Puhiwahine, research notes regarding the publication of Puhiwahine which includes waiata and history about Puhiwahine and a paper titled `Gotty, Man of mystery' Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, Typescripts and printed matter
Maori culture, language, history and waiata
Date: 1920
From: Stowell, Henry Matthew, 1859-1944 :Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0062-45
Description: Waiata from Ngapuhi eg waiata aroha and waiata putorino or flute song; also several waiata tangi describing the loss of a daughter from the Rangitikei / Manawatu area and waiata tangi from Maru iwi; waiata poroporoaki or farewell songs from people such as Tawhiao and several hymns covering a wide range of topics from Christianity to the `Mt Egmont Hotel' in Hawera; several war songs about the Orakau battle, Maori soldiers overseas during World War One, a waiata hari or `Triumph Song' and many other war songs from iwi on the East Coast; also songs about birds and Maori welcomes. Essays and articles on Maori food preparation and preservation about birds, body embalming and preserving heads, Maori lunar calendar, Ohaewai land claim, pataka, archaeology, Taranaki Maori history, Maori creation and Maori evolution, stories with an essentially New Zealand theme, the meeting proceedings between the Premier and Maori at Patea, on William Cowper, Maori taonga and artifacts found in a Ohaewai Cave in the Bay of Islands, a swimming pool with the skeletal remains of Frenchmen in a settlement in England, an account of the `Death of Hauraki, a Hokianga Chief' during the New Zealand Wars in 1845-1846, on Maori and Polynesian origins, protest to the Treaty of Waitangi in 1913. Photographs of landscape such as the Whangarei Heads and Mt Manaia, photograph of a Chief, Pokai Tete, letter to Sir James Carroll and another to Sir Maui Pomare, includes card play tactics in cribbage and also whakapapa of Hongi Hika of Ngapuhi and Kapewhiti of Taranaki also includes 92 whakatauaki and material on Ngapuhi grammar or Maori phrases. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph, mss, typescripts (some with ms annotations) and printed matter Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Elsdon Best - Notebook vol 1
Date: 1892-1894
From: Polynesian Society: Records
Reference: MS-Papers-1187-021
Description: Informants and contents listed at the front. Mainly concerns Maori subjects of the Wellington district and provincial area, as well as some notes on Asian languages. Included are notes by S P Smith, and letters to Smith from Gudgeon. Also contains information on Maori circumcision practices as well as Maori customary concepts and whakapapa specific to the Kurahaupo and Takitimu Waka traditions. Includes comprehensive account of the Ngati Toa - Ati Awa including Puketapu and Ngati Maru - migration to the Kapiti Coast. Quantity: 1 volume(s).