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Scrapbook No 8
- Date
- 1923-1931
- By
- Dumont d'Urville, Jules Sebastien Cesar, 1790-1842
- Reference
- qMS-0216
- Description
1870 Government census of Ngati Toa; Te Ati Awa ki Waikanae and Whareroa, and Ngati Raukawa ki te Tonga with the names of Ngati Toa's principal chiefs and the death notice [1924] of the Ngati Toa chief Hanikamu Te Hiko. Polynesian/Maori Voyages; Maori origins; Tuhoe Whare Tapere traditions, and the Waikato Wars. Comprises information on the Kingitanga debate to send Maori troops into World War One; Te Kooti's re-interment and the sale of Major General Robley's collection of Moko-mokai to the New York Metropolitan Museum. Paper on Kai Tahu Maori vocabulary and dialect. Speculative article on the Spanish Helmet dredged up from Wellington Harbour 1906. Includes D'Urville's narrative on Otago and his interaction with Kai Tahu Maori. Report on the Kaingaroa rock carvings and Maori Death Customs.
Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Finding Aids: Index at qMS-0217.
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Part of
- Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931 : Papers / Series 5 - Scrapbooks
- Format
- 1 volume(s), Scrapbooks
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