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Takaanui Tarakawa - Correspondence with S P Smith and paper on Te Arawa and Tainui canoes
Date: [ca 1893-1894]
From: Polynesian Society: Records
Reference: MS-Papers-1187-178
Description: Comprises letters from Tarakawa to S P Smith discussing traditional matters (27 Nov 1893, 14, 29 August, 12, 17 Oct 1894); and a paper titled `Whakamarama-tanga o te pepa puru na'. The latter has a note by Smith describing this paper as an explanation of some matters referred to in his paper `The Coming of Te Arawa and Tainui canoes'. The traditional matter discussed in the letters includes Te Arawa whakapapa, information about the migration, arrival and settlement of Te Arawa and Tainui and related karakia, and notes about 19th century conflicts in the Bay of Plenty district; there are also discussions about the derivation of various Maori placenames, and about Maori attitudes to the use of traditional information. Most of the paper by Tarakawa is published in the `Journal of the Polynesian Society'v 3, 168-175, 199-207. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Takaanui Tarakawa - Letters to S P Smith
Date: 1895-1899
From: Polynesian Society: Records
Reference: MS-Papers-1187-173
Description: Includes letters to S P Smith 11 Jan-4 May 1895, from Te Puke, and Jun-Jul 1899, from Takapau, Hawkes Bay The letters include a discussion of Tarakawa's role in the Polynesian Society as an authority on tribal history, a report on a meeting at Tauranga to discuss Ngai Te Rangi history, an invitation to Smith to come on a guided tour of the Bay of Plenty, information about Ngati Kahungunu founding ancestors and notes about Tarakawa's residence in the Hawkes Bay area The letters also contain notes about Ngapuhi conflicts with iwi in the southern North Island in the 1820s, and commentary (and some whakapapa) on papers submitted by Gudgeon about the Takitimu and Te Arawa canoes Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Te Tuhi Pihopa - Legends and genealogies
Date: 1895-1896
From: Polynesian Society: Records
Reference: MS-Papers-1187-113A
Description: Notebook containing karakia, waiata and whakatauki; Tuhoe whakapapa and notes about Tuhoe hapu and about conflicts between Tuhoe and Ngati Kahungunu in the 19th century; notes about the respective events that preceded the migrations of the Aotea and the Mataatua canoes from Hawaiki to New Zealand and information about the migrations per se; narrative about the introduction of the kumara to New Zealand from Hawaiki, and notes about conflicts involving Ngati Kahungunu ancestors Rakaihikuroa, Tupurupuru, Tuatamure and Kahutapere in the Gisborne area; there is also a narrative about the Tuhoe ancestor Rangiteaorere Notebook has "from Te Tuhi Pihopa" in Best's hand and "H T Pio Maori notes no.11" crossed out. Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Hamiora Pio - Notebooks 4-5
Date: [ca 1885-1901]
From: Polynesian Society: Records
Reference: MS-Papers-1187-115
Description: There are notes in these volumes about whakapapa (both cosmological and human), accounts of migration frrom Hawaiki to New Zealand, whakatauki, karakia and waiata, notes about various customary practices, information about the relationship between the `tangata whenua' and the Hawaiki migrants and the introduction of the kumara to New Zealand; there is also information about various prominent mountains in the North Island, and narratives about Maui and about Te Tahi-o-te-rangi Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2 volumes).