MANUSCRIPT
Elsdon Best - Notes and correspondence on Maori matters
- Date
- [189-?]
- By
- Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931; Skinner, William Henry, 1857-1946; Whakataki, Te Karehana, -1897
- Reference
- MS-Papers-1187-020
- Description
Comprises notes in Best's hand, notes by S P Smith and letters to Smith. Among the variety of material are notes on Hau, a West Coast ancestor and his journey to Paekakariki; traditional history of early ancestor Tutahanga and fighting between Ngati Maru and Ngapuhi; whakapapa from Karepa Te Uira to Tamarere Ahu II; queries and notes about Ngati Ira and early Wellington; brief notes and whakapapa of Ngati Maru; a waiata from Whanake; many items relating to Wellington Maori place names, iwi, chiefs and history and other fragments of North Island Maori history.
Includes two letters from W H Skinner to S P Smith, 1894.
Also contains notes about the Ngati Toa and Taranaki chiefs leading the migrations to the Horowhenua and Wellington regions, and their conflicts with the Muaupoko; Ngati Apa; Rangitane and Ngati Kahungunu.
Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Finding Aids: Detailed listing of folder contents available in inventory.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original - Microfilm copies available in Katherine Mansfield Reading Room. Use MS-Copy-Micro-0755-04 or MS-Copy-Micro-0119
- Part of
- Polynesian Society: Records / Ethnological manuscripts collection
- Format
- 1 folder(s), Manuscripts
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