MANUSCRIPT
Elsdon Best - Notebook vol 1
- Date
- 1892-1894
- By
- Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931; Gudgeon, Walter Edward, 1841-1920; Pikiwera, Pumipi, active 1879-1896; Te Neke, Wiremu Tamihana, -1885; Te Paki, Ihaia, active 1820s-1898; Te Whetu, active 1860s; Wahawaha, Rapata, -1897; Whakataki, Te Karehana, -1897
- Reference
- MS-Papers-1187-021
- Description
Informants and contents listed at the front. Mainly concerns Maori subjects of the Wellington district and provincial area, as well as some notes on Asian languages. Included are notes by S P Smith, and letters to Smith from Gudgeon.
Also contains information on Maori circumcision practices as well as Maori customary concepts and whakapapa specific to the Kurahaupo and Takitimu Waka traditions. Includes comprehensive account of the Ngati Toa - Ati Awa including Puketapu and Ngati Maru - migration to the Kapiti Coast.
Quantity: 1 volume(s).
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original - Microfilm copies available in Katherine Mansfield Reading Room. Use MS-Copy-Micro-0755-05
- Part of
- Polynesian Society: Records / Ethnological manuscripts collection
- Format
- 1 volume(s), Manuscripts
See original record
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