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Manuscript

Ngati Ira, Wairarapa and Ngai Tahu - Notes

Date: 1960s-1970s

From: Cairns, Keith Raymond 1925-1987 : Research papers relating to the Wairarapa, particularly archaeology and Maori history

Reference: 88-070-03/1

Description: Contains notes about the Ngai Tahu occupation of the South Island (including off-prints of articles about this topic by Helen Leach and by Foss Leach), notes about Maori placenames around Wellington extracted from `The great harbour of Tara' by G Leslie Adkin, notes for an address about the occupation and settlement of Wairarapa, notes about the Ngati Ira migration to Wairarapa, including information about traditional and archaeological eveidence Also includes information about various taniwha that lived in the Wairarapa area, including notes supplied by George Te Whaiti and Rangi Namana Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Online Manuscript

Maori notebook No 16 (spine title)

Date: 1913-1928

From: Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931 : Papers

By: Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931

Reference: qMS-0195

Description: Contains notes about various topics taken from published sources and contributed by Te Whatahoro and others, including the early Pakeha settlement of Wellington, Maori pa sites around Wellington and Wairarapa and related historical events, migrations and conflicts within Rangitane, Ngati Ira and Ngati Kahungunu: notes about whakapapa, earthquakes, moa, eels, fish, guns, waiata, photographs of designs incised on stones near Rahotu, Taranaki, etc. Also includes notes about the settlement of the South Island from Mantell's notes (supplied by Matiaha Tira - [Tiramorehu?]); notes collected from Ngapuhi by W J Phillips; Continued in Maori notebook No 23 qMS-0203. (Index to Maori notebook No 16 is qMS-0196). Source of title - Title from spine Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph

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