MANUSCRIPT
Tamati Ranapiri - Notes on bird and rat snaring and other traditional matters
- Date
- 1895, 1901
- By
- Ranapiri, Tamati, active 1872-1907; Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931
- Reference
- MS-Papers-1187-127
- Description
Contains letters from Ranapiri to Elsdon Best with detailed accounts of bird-catching, rat-snaring and traditional customs and practices associated with those activites; also contains information about spiritual concepts associated with the forest, including mauri, and hau
Also contains information about Ngati Raukawa, and their migration from Kawhia to Kapiti
Other - Some of this material was published in the "Journal of the Polynesian Society" v4 p132. Some was also used by Best in his "Forest lore of the Maori".
Quantity: 1 folder(s).
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original - Microfilm copies available in Katherine Mansfield Reading Room. Use MS-Copy-Micro-0755-17
- Part of
- Polynesian Society: Records / Ethnological manuscripts collection
- Format
- 1 folder(s), Sketches, Manuscripts
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Copyright
UnknownFirst page of letter from Tamati Ranapiri to Elsdon Best
Date: 7 Oct 1901
From: Polynesian Society: Records
Reference: MS-Papers-1187-127-01
Description: Letter in Maori Quantity: 1 page.