MANUSCRIPT
Maori correspondence
- Date
- 1907
- By
- Apanui, Te Hurinui, 1855?-1924; Erueti, Koopu, -1937; Hotene, Hira, active 1907; Hutana, Ihaia, 1843?-1938; Jury, Hoani Te Whatahoro, 1841-1923; Matenga, Hemi, 1838-1912; Nireaha Tāmaki, 1836?-1911; Piripi, Rangi, active 1907; Tarawhiti, Karaka, active 1917-1918; Te Paa, Wiki (Rev), 1845-1919
- Reference
- MS-Papers-0407-12
- Description
Contains a copy of an account by Hemi Matenga about the rescue of seamen from the shipwreck Delaware in Cable Bay, Whakapuaka (Marlborough region) with a related news clipping from the New Zealand Times, an original account by Te Whatahoro about the recording of cosmological and other information from Te Matorohanga and other tohunga, and about the production of books based on the material, which is reproduced by the New Zealand Times (translation by Keys), and where Te Whatahoro names Keys as his agent for sales of the books
There is also an account by Te Whatahoro about the incestuous relationship between the Ngati Kahungunu ancestor Rakaihikuroa and his granddaughter
There are letters to Keys from Maori about personal affairs, Maori vocabulary and whakatauki (in answer to questions by Keys), notes about the Kuaka (Godwit) and its place in Maori tradition, ethnographic notes (again in answer to questions by Keys), and notes about a potato blight and a measles epidemic at Omaio
There are also copies of letters from Maori to James Carroll; one of the letters contains a report on a major Kingitanga gathering at Waahi in 1907, and the other letters are from Nireaha Tamaki seeking government assistance with food to supply a four month whakapapa hui at Dannevirke, and noting that Tamaki's potato crops were blighted
Quantity: 1 folder(s) 16 pieces.
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-0724-1
- Part of
- Keys, Ben, 1878-1951 : Papers
- Format
- 1 folder(s) 16 pieces, Manuscripts
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