MANUSCRIPT
Maori letters to Colenso
- Date
- 1851
- By
- Ahunuku, Rutene, active 1851-1866; Hoera, active 1850; Iretono, Hemi, active 1847-1851; Karaka, Hori, active 1847-1852; Karanema, active 1851-1853; Maika, active 1848-1854; Ngataru, Taramena, active 1851; Ngatuere Tawhirimatea Tawhao, -1890; Paewai, Hohepa, active 1850; Pakaiahi, Hamiora, active 1850-1860s; Te Horipo, Ihakara, active 1851; Te Huripoki, Reihana, active 1854; Te Paraone, active 1848; Te Pukenui, Hakaraia, active 1849-1851; Te Rehe, Kararaina, active 1851; Te Tatere, Harawira Mahikai, -1886; Te Waaka, active 1849-1851; Torotoro, Paora, active 1850-1865; Waipari, Arapera, active 1846-1856; Watarau, Ihaka, active 1850s; Weku, Mata, active 1852
- Reference
- 91-169-2/2
- Description
Contains letters from Maori to Colenso about the activities of Maori teachers, parishioners, and others, requests for religious texts, medicine and other items, reports of illnesses and deathes, news about internal community conflicts, and letters seeking forgiveness; within this, there is a great deal of information about Maori society in Wairarapa and Hawkes Bay in the 1850s
Includes one letter about the activities of Te Horo, a religious leader at Mataikona (see Elsmore, 1989 'Mana from Heaven' pp 119-122)
Quantity: 1 folder(s).
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Part of
- Colenso, William, 1811-1899 : Journals and correspondence
- Format
- 1 folder(s), Manuscripts
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