Te Ao Maori History, Society & Culture
This category deals with the Maori as they have written about themselves, or as they have been written about by scholars and storytellers. The latter is more numerous.
Maori Place-Names of Otago by Herries Beattie
$50.00 NZD
Category: Cadsonbury
A comprehensive collection that includes over one thousand hitherto unpublished names collected from Maori sources. This is a Cadsonbury reprint containing a new index.
Maori Place-names of Otago by Herries Beattie
$75.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Maori History, Society & Culture
Secondhand.
The Stirring Times of Te Rauparaha (Chief of the Ngatitoa) by William Thomas Locke Travers
$55.00 NZD
Category: Cadsonbury
A very comprehensive history of Te Rauparaha, the Maori rangatira and war leader of the Ngati Toa tribe who took a leading part in the Musket Wars along with a history of the sacking of Kaiapohia. Originally published in1906, this is a fascimile reprint.
Maori Lore Of Lake Alp And Fiord by Beattie, Herries
$50.00 NZD
Category: Cadsonbury | Reading Level: Near Fine
'Folklore, fairy tales, traditions and place names of the scenic wonderland of the South Island.' First published in 1945, this is a facsimile edition with a new index.
The Maori: Volume 2 by Elsdon Best
$70.00 NZD
Category: Cadsonbury
Reprint, originally published: Wellington, N.Z. : Board of Maori Ethnological Research for the Author and on behalf of the Polynesian Society, 1924. Memoirs of the Polynesian Society ; v. 5.
Vol 1: Legends of the Maori: Mythology, Folk-Lore, Tradition and Poetry (1930) by Maui Pomare and James Cowan
$70.00 NZD
Category: Cadsonbury
This volume is divided into three sections, designed to present a general survey of Maori-Polynesian tradition and belief: a series of typical legends, folktales and tribal historical narratives, and a collection of the poetry of the race. Facsimile reprint, originally published 1930.
Our Southernmost Maoris - Their Habitat, Nature Notes, Problems and Perplexities, Controversial and Conversational, Further Place Names, Antiquity of Man in New Zealand by H. Beattie; .b124
$60.00 NZD
Category: Cadsonbury
History and traditions of the Maori of the South Island gathered from numerous interviews with elderly Maori in the Otago and Southland region. First published in 1954, this is a facsimile reprint with an extensive 140 page index, new to this edition.
Maori Place-names of Canterbury by J H Beattie
$60.00 NZD
Category: Cadsonbury
A comprehensive collection that includes over one thousand hitherto unpublished names collected from Maori sources. First published in 1945, this is a facsimile reprint with a new index.
Folklore and Fairytales by Herries Beattie
$40.00 NZD
Category: Cadsonbury
Ngai Tahu folklore taken from interviews with Taare te Maiharoa, who was born about 1850. Legends of the Mackenzie Country, Otago and South Canterbury. Facsimile of the 1957 edition, with an index new to this edition.
The Maori Tohunga and His Spirit World by J. C. Andersen
$42.50 NZD
Category: Cadsonbury
This book deals with strange things, some of which many people will dismiss as mere superstition; but assertion of its non-existence does not dispel the strangeness. Most of those who have been intimate with Maori confess that there was much, is much that we cannot explain - the power of Tapu for insta ...Show more
Maori Music (2017) by J. C. Andersen
$90.00 NZD
Category: Cadsonbury
Facsimile edition. Original edition published as Vol. 10 of the Memoirs of the Polynesian Society 1934.
The Maoris of the South Island by T. A. Pybus
$50.00 NZD
Category: Cadsonbury
This is a facsimile edition of the book first published in 1954. In this book Mr Pybus tells of the coming of the first brown men to the South Island of New Zealand, of their traditions, religious beliefs, customs and way of life. He gives a succinct history of the successive waves of migration and conq ...Show more