Iwi: Ngati KahungunuUnpublished

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First published in the 1970s, this book remains an authoritative account of the Maori history and place names throughout the Hawke's Bay region. With many aerial photographs and maps, this book has been re-designed and re-released after being out of print for many years.

Starting with the building of Te Poho o Potiki, the central wharenui at Iwitea of Ngāi Tahu Matawhāiti, a hapū of Ngāti Kahungunu, A Carved Cloak for Tahu explores its taonga, the iwi and hapū identities represented in its waiata, stories and carvings, its colonial history...

Published by Ngati Kahungunu Iwi Inc., and the National Library of New Zealand: Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa in association with Huia Publishers. This collection of remarkable photographic portraits of Ngati Kahungunu 1870-1906 by Samuel Carnell is accompanied by essays in English and Maori which...

This stunning book presents a history of the Ngati Hikatoa people through the writings of seven Maori people spanning four generations of the Maaka family. Included are genealogies, traditional histories and personal documents written in Maori and in English that date from 1848-1978. Ranging from...

Original Maori text in parallel with English translation of one of the earliest surviving pieces of writing in Maori: an account written from a Maori perspective of a journey in 1843-44 with Anglican missionary Bishop Selwyn's party. There is an introduction, commentary on text and manuscript, some...

"The Mohaka ki Ahuriri inquiry was the Waitangi Tribunal's first district casebook inquiry. In other words, it was the first time a group of claims within a particular region were grouped together for hearing, with all essential claimant evidence being assembled into a casebook of reports before the...