MANUSCRIPT
Kerehoma Tuwhawhakia - Wanganui history
- Date
- 1895-1896
- By
- Tuwhawhakia, Kerehoma, active 1895-1896
- Reference
- MS-Papers-1187-190
- Description
Contains waiata (mainly laments and love songs) relating to Whanganui, with explanatory notes, and traditions about the Aotea canoe and its migration from Hawaiki to New Zealand; also contains narratives about important Whanganui ancestors and their activities and conflicts, and anecdotes about 19th century Whanganui people; also contains general notes about patupaiarehe, the god Maru, and a whakapapa and narrative of the Ngati Tutaiaroa hapu. Volume 1 includes a letter from Hare Hongi to S P Smith, 12 Mar 1895. A note from Smith to Elsdon Best says that much of this has been printed in the Journal of the Polynesian Society.
Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2 volumes).
Physical Description: Mss
- Additional description
Alternative form available: microfilm: MS-Copy-Micro-0755-23
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Polynesian Society: Records / Ethnological manuscripts collection
- Format
- 1 folder(s) (2 volumes), Manuscripts, Mss
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