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Newspapers - Miscellaneous Maori topics
Date: 1903-1930s
From: Stowell, Henry Matthew, 1859-1944 :Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0062-63
Description: Includes material on Maori history, geography, science, health, language, placenames, prose, poetry, waiata, New Zealand flora and fauna, the transpacific migration of the Maori, personalities, `Problems of the Maori', `Should Maori have equal rights like Europeans?', religion, Maori artifactual preservation, land claims and Maori art Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter (some with holograph annotations)
Maori place names
Date: [19-]-1939
From: Stowell, Henry Matthew, 1859-1944 :Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0062-32
Description: Includes essays on Maori place names and their origin from Ngati Toa who travelled along the west coast naming some areas Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph, typescripts (some with ms annotations), printed matter and photographs
Maori language, songs, place names and poetry
Date: [19-?]-1930
From: Stowell, Henry Matthew, 1859-1944 :Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0062-40
Description: Includes a poem from Pat Lawlor,`The Ould bog hole' and a poem, with explanation, `Freya'. Also includes a waiata tangi (funeral dirge) written by Te Ika Here Ngutu regarding his children who were either killed in conflict or died of disease later on. Includes a school haka for `Victoria College' and an index with Maori headings; lists of Maori place names for various regions (Wellington, Napier, Gisborne) and provides linguistic rules and grammar for appropriate pronunciation. Also includes whakapapa, an essay on comparative language between Maori and the Pacific Islands. Includes the song `Pokarekare ana', and list of names with ages and gender [perhaps a shareholders list] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph (some with ms annotations), mss and typescripts