MANUSCRIPT
Te Watene Taungatara - History of Ati Awa tribe
- Date
- 1899
- By
- Taungatara, Te Watene, active 1850s-1880s
- Reference
- MS-Papers-1187-181
- Description
Volume of history of Te Ati Awa in the 19th century written in 1899 by Te Watene Taungatara of Matarikoriko, Waitara at the request of W H Skinner and S Percy Smith, and copy in Smith's hand. Includes account of wars with Waikato and Ngapuhi at Taranaki, battle of Te Kuititanga, introduction of Christianity, migration of Te Rauparaha to Kapiti. A note says `All of this has been incorporated into [S P Smith's] "The Maori history of the Taranaki coast".
Quantity: 1 volume(s).
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original - Microfilm copies available in Katherine Mansfield Reading Room. Use MS-Copy-Micro-0755-22
- Part of
- Polynesian Society: Records / Ethnological manuscripts collection
- Format
- 1 volume(s), Manuscripts
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