MANUSCRIPT
Samuel Locke - Te Putake o nga tupuna Maori (and other traditions)
- Date
- [18--]
- By
- Locke, Samuel, 1836-1890
- Reference
- MS-Papers-1187-098
- Description
Contains waiata and haka from Ngati Porou and Ngati Kahungunu; contains cosmological notes about the creation of the universe; also contains narrative accounts about various demi-gods including Maui, Tawhaki and Pourangahua (this last account includes details of the fetching of the kumara to New Zealand); also contains an account of the Ngati Kahungunu migration to Heretaunga following conflicts involving Rakaihikuroa
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-0755-15
- Part of
- Polynesian Society: Records / Ethnological manuscripts collection
- Format
- 1 volume(s), Manuscripts
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