MANUSCRIPT
William Wyatt Gill - Letters from the Rarotongan missionaries at New Guinea to Rev W W Gill; Rarotongan legends
- Date
- 1878-1880
- By
- Gill, William Wyatt (Rev), 1828-1896; Boela, Piri, active 1880; Te Autaeaki, active 1878; Tuakana, active 1880; Smith, Stephenson Percy, 1840-1922
- Reference
- MS-Papers-1187-057
- Description
Included are: Piri Boela to Gill, 22 Apr 1880 (4p); Te Autaeaki to the pupils at Takamoa, 20 Dec 1878 (4p); Piri Boela, Boera, New Guinea, 25 Aug 1880 (4p); Piri, Suan, New Guinea, 8 Sep 1878 (6p); Legends, signed Tuakana and headed Ararua, 16 Jan 1880 (22p), in S P Smith's hand `Cannibal story, other legends concerning Tangaroa'; Legends, headed Ararua 13 Mar 1880 (13p), note on p11 `This part already published JPS under "Maui"'; The story of how Nga Apainmarokura made the first ti (oven) (3p), note `see Taraove's story in my jottings for a synopsis of this sad story'.
Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Finding Aids: Inventory available.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original - Microfilm copies available in Katherine Mansfield Reading Room. Use MS-Copy-Micro-0755-09
- Part of
- Polynesian Society: Records / Series 10 - Ethnological manuscripts collection
- Format
- 1 folder(s), Manuscripts
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