Lived at Pukepoto
Puhipi, Riapo T, active 1908
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Manuscript
Letterbook containing copies of letters written to members of family and friends
Date: May-Nov 1907
From: Keys, Ben, 1878-1951 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0407-24
Description: Contains numerous letters from Keys to friends and family members that provide detailed information about his travels through the lower North Island, and through the Far North; there are detailed descriptions of the countryside which Keys travels through, and discussions of people that he meets; there are also discussions of Maori customs and practicees that he experiences and his impressions of them; there are also some comments about the work that Keys undertakes in the Maori Land Courts Page 86 has been removed from the letterbook Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Manuscript
Maori correspondence
Date: 1908
From: Keys, Ben, 1878-1951 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0407-13
Description: Contains correspondence to Keys concerning Maori land administration, and answers to various ethnographic and genealogical questions asked by Keys to Maori informants; also contains whakapapa, and a copy of a letter from Tawhiao to Gilbert Mair in 1881 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.
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Manuscript
Diary
Date: Jan-Oct 1920
From: Keys, Ben, 1878-1951 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0407-32
Description: Contains diary entries by Keys re his travels through the Bay of Plenty and Horowhenua districts on business as a Native Land Agent; there are detailed descriptions of the countryside and towns which Keys travelled through, and discussions about the people he met; there are also discussions about Maori practices and customs that he encountered and his impressions of them. There are also notes about native flora and fauna and the liquor trade, and a number of photographs of people (mainly from Te Arawa and Ngati Raukawa), scenery and marae, taken by Keys according to the text (each is dated). Also contains copies of various manuscripts (in Maori) submitted to Keys by Maori informants, and information about the history of Rangiatea at Otaki Also includes stories, written in Maori, from the Ngati Raukawa tribe; "The story of Uenuku-kopako and Kapu- Manawawhiti"; "The death of Tukemata"; and a copy of a letter from Riapo Puhipi (Leopold Busby) about an exchange of gifts between Te Rauparaha and Poroa, a chief of Ahipara. Includes photographs of the old Otaki school house; Kahurangi Taipua; Raukawa meeting house (all on p.73), and Tungia Te Ao (pp.74 & 100). Contains description of the Whakatane river in 1907 (p33 & 34) and the names of the rocks in the river. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.