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Maori Agriculture - The cultivated food plants of the natives of New Zealand, with some account of native methods of agriculture, its ritual and origin myths by Elsdon Best
85.00 NZD
Category: Maori Books | Reading Level: very good
Maori Agriculture - out of print by Elsdon Best
34.99 NZD
Category: Maori Books
Elsdon Best was a prolific recorder of pre-European Maori social life and material culture. His work established him as New Zealand's foremost ethnographer of Maori society. Best based is research on rare first-hand knowledge, wide reading, informed study and discussion with Maori. His was a lifelon ...Show more
Maori Eschatology (out of print) by Elsdon Best
50.00 NZD
Category: Maori Books
Facs. reprint of 1906 edition laminated cover Early New Zealand scholar Elsdon Best looks at customs, beliefs, rites pertaining to death and burial and the spiritual world of the Maori. A limited number of copies left.
Maori Religion and Mythology Part 1 : Being an account of the cosmogony, anthropogeny, religious beliefs and rites, magic and folklore of the Maori folk of New Zealand by Elsdon Best
34.99 NZD
Category: Maori Books
Originally published: Wellington, N.Z. : Dominion Museum, 1929. Includes bibliographical references and index. An account of the cosmogony, anthropogeny, religious beliefs and rites, magic and folk lore of the Maori folk of New Zealand First published 1924; this reprint with alterations 2005. Elsdon ...Show more
Maori Storehouses and Kindred Structures by Elsdon Best
34.99 NZD
Category: Maori Books
Elsdon Best was a prolific recorder of pre-European Maori social life and material culture. His work established him as New Zealand's foremost ethnographer of Maori society. Best based is research on rare first-hand knowledge, wide reading, informed study and discussion with Maori. His was a lifelon ...Show more
Maori Storehouses and Kindred Structures : Houses, platforms, racks, and pits used for storing food, etc by Elsdon Best
110.00 NZD
Category: Maori Books
First published 1916. Reprinted
Notes on the Art of War by Elsdon Best
29.99 NZD
Category: Maori Books | Reading Level: near fine
Best's notes on war customs, practices and ceremonies of the Maori were published as nine articles and supplementary notes in the Journal of the Polynesian Society between 1902 and 1906. Based on his research among the Tuhoe people, these notes on war as conducted by the Maori of New Zealand, with accou ...Show more
The Maori: Volume 1 by Elsdon Best
74.99 NZD
Category: Maori Books
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.