MANUSCRIPT
Eruera Te Uremutu - Some Arawa legends
- Date
- [between 1860 and 1880]
- By
- Te Uremutu, Eruera, 1820?-1897
- Reference
- MS-Papers-1187-191
- Description
Recounts episodes in Arawa history, including fighting with Ngai Te Rangi in the 1840s, and gives whakapapa information.
In his book `The Great New Zealand myth' D R Simmonds claims this manuscript was written in 1846. However, the names given in some whakapapa indicate it was probably written between 1860 and 1880.
Other - NB: Black and white negative (C 16135) of `four waka', p21, available through the Pictorial Reference Section. Colour transparency of same available through the Drawings and Prints Section
Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Physical Description: Holograph
Provenance: Presented to the Polynesian Society by G H (George Henry) Davies.
- Additional description
Alternative form available: Microfilm available. Use 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 volume(s), Sketches, Manuscripts, Holograph
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Four sketches of figures in canoes
Date: 1846
From: Polynesian Society: Records
Reference: MS-Papers-1187-191-21
Description: Four sketches of figures standing upright in their waka. In their right hands the figures appear to be brandishing weapons of various sorts Physical Description: Four coloured ink and red pencil sketches on page 210mm x 325mm
Double page - Diary entries and sketches
Date: [1840-1880?]
From: Polynesian Society: Records
Reference: MS-Papers-1187-191-20
Description: Double page. Includes five sketches of figures standing upright in waka. In their right hands they appear to be brandishing weapons. Quantity: 2 pages. Physical Description: Ink text; ink and pencil sketches