MANUSCRIPT
H T Whatahoro Jury - Notebook
- Date
- 1865
- By
- Te Kukutai, Riwhai Tamati, active 1850; Smith, Stephenson Percy, 1840-1922; Te Matorohanga, Moihi, active 1836-1865
- Reference
- MS-Papers-0189-B034
- Description
Contains cosmological information including accounts of the fetching of the wananga from Io, the divine origin of various items and practices, a list of children of Rangi and Papa, the origins of the universe, the separation of Rangi and Papa, and the twelve heavens and their inhabitants; also contains information about the practices associated with the whare wananga and karakia
Also contains a letter from S P Smith to Te Whatahoro stressing that Smith has not made any money from Polynesian ethnology, confirming receipt of material from Te Whatahoro, and inviting him to come and stay with Smith at New Plymouth
Enclosures - A 3 page letter written Tihema 29 1910, addressed to H T Whatahoro from Te Mete [Percy Smith?] is inserted in the beginning of book
Other - The book is stamped with the seal `Paremata o te iwi Maori o Aotearoa me Te Waipounamu = Parliament of the Maori tribes of the North and South Islands of New Zealand'
Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Physical Description: ½ brown calf, black boards, 33 cm., vol numbered 20
- Use/Reproduction
- No extensive photocopying or publication without permission of NZMPFB
- Access restrictions
- Restricted - Content cannot be accessed without permission
- Part of
- Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers / Series 9 - Hoani Te Whatahoro Jury papers
- Format
- 1 folder(s), Manuscripts, ½ brown calf, black boards, 33 cm., vol numbered 20
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