BOOK

How Maui found the secret of fire / Peter Gossage.

Date: 2005-1984
By: Gossage, Peter, 1946-2016
Identifier: ISBN 1869485750 (pbk.)
Summary: On a mission to discover how fire is made, Maui visits his Aunty Mahuika. Each time he is given a flame he tells her he has lost it, until he eventually has lost all but one of her flames. In a rage she flings her last flame into a kaikomako tree. Maui takes a piece of hard mahoe wood and rubs it against a branch of the tree, bringing fire for eternity to his people.
Notes: Originally published: Lansdowne-Rigby, 1984.
Publisher: Auckland [N.Z.] : Reed, 2005.
Format: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 31 cm.

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