MANUSCRIPT
Maori language, songs, place names and poetry
- Date
- [19-?]-1930
- By
- Lawlor, Patrick Anthony, 1893-1979
- Reference
- MS-Papers-0062-40
- Description
Includes a poem from Pat Lawlor,`The Ould bog hole' and a poem, with explanation, `Freya'. Also includes a waiata tangi (funeral dirge) written by Te Ika Here Ngutu regarding his children who were either killed in conflict or died of disease later on. Includes a school haka for `Victoria College' and an index with Maori headings; lists of Maori place names for various regions (Wellington, Napier, Gisborne) and provides linguistic rules and grammar for appropriate pronunciation. Also includes whakapapa, an essay on comparative language between Maori and the Pacific Islands. Includes the song `Pokarekare ana', and list of names with ages and gender [perhaps a shareholders list]
Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Physical Description: Holograph (some with ms annotations), mss and typescripts
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original - Microfilm copies available in Katherine Mansfield Reading Room. Use MS-Copy-Micro-0770-03
- Part of
- Stowell, Henry Matthew, 1859-1944 :Papers / 5 Maori notes
- Format
- 1 folder(s), Manuscripts, Holograph (some with ms annotations), mss and typescripts
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