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 and Missionary: Early Christian Missions in the South Island of New Zealand by T. A. Pybus
$65.00 NZD
Category: Cadsonbury
"Maori and the Missionary" is the result of years of work by the Rev. T. Arthur Pybus, who ministered to the Maori congregation at Otakou at one time. He traced the development of early Christian missions to the Maoris of the South Island.
Tamihana the Kingmaker by L.S. Rickard
$60.00 NZD
Category: Cadsonbury
A biography of the great Maori leader and statesman Wiremu Tamihana who played a crucial role in North Island politics during the period of turmoil in the 1850s and 1860s. First published in 1963, this is a facsimile reprint.
A Short Sketch of the Maori Races by Edward Shortland
$30.00 NZD
Category: Cadsonbury
A small account of the Maori Races. First published in 1865, this is a 2004 reprint.
The Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary by Edward Tregear
$90.00 NZD
Category: Cadsonbury
Facsimile edition. Lecture by John White on Maori religion and folklore.
The Maori: Volume 1 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.
Traditions and Legends of the South Island Maori Collected from the Natives of Murihiku (Southland, New Zealand) by Herries Beattie
$55.00 NZD
Category: Cadsonbury
Facsimile edition of articles published in JPS from 1915 to 1922. Soft-cover published in 2016. Originally published in the Journal of the Polynesian Society between 1915 and 1922, these stories were collected by the author crom Maori of Murihiku (Southland). Full index included.
Folk-tales of the Maori by Alfred A. (Alfred Augustus) Grace
$70.00 NZD
Category: Cadsonbury
Facsimile edition. While many collections of Maori folk-tales have appeared since this book was first published 100 years ago, a new edition seems justified because of the increased interest in Maori traditions in New Zealand and indeed other countries. Although folk-tales are not history as understood ...Show more
Kei Puta te Wairau: A History of Marlborough in Maori times by W. J. Elvy
$42.50 NZD
Category: Marlborough
An authoritative account of Maori life relating particularly to the lower reahes of the Wairau Valey and to the Sounds from Cloudy Bay accross to Havelock. First published in 1957, this is a facsimile reprint.
Vol 2: Legends of the Maori: Mythology, Folk-lore, Tradition and Poetry (1930) by Maui Pomare
$70.00 NZD
Category: Cadsonbury
A comprehensive and authoritative collection of Maori folklore and tradition with artistic illustrations by Stuart Peterson. First published in 1930 without an index, this is a facsimile reprint of the original text with a substantial and completely new index. Includes folding genealogy chart of the pri ...Show more
Early Missionary Work in Whanganui (1840-1850) by L. J. B. (Leonard James Bancroft) Chapple
$50.00 NZD
Category: Cadsonbury
An outline of the work of the Revs. Matthews, Mason and Taylor with an introductory chapter on the Church Missionary Society beginnings in the Bay of Islands.
Tikao Talks: Traditions and tales second edition by Herries Beattie
$42.50 NZD
Category: Cadsonbury
Contains many traditions and beliefs never before recorded. As an old man Teone Taare Tikao passed on to the author, knowledge which he had gained as a young man from the old people. First published in 1939 and again in 1990, this is a facsimile of the first edition with an index added.