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Eruera Stirling was an elder of the Whanau-a-Apanui tribe, who lived in Auckland. This outstanding autobiography arises from his determination to pass on the traditional knowledge entrusted to him in his childhood by tribal elders, and from his wish to explain to a younger generation the deeper...

This work comprises th life history of eight Maori women. They have all been brought up in small rural communities - communities associated with the Riangatu faith, a distinct Maori religious movement founded in the late-19th century by the visionary leader Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki. It is the...

In the late nineteenth century, the leading tohunga Pita Kapiti, at Waiapu on the East Coast, dictated an account of the rituals surrounding the cultivation of kumara and hue (gourds) and the hunting of kiore (rats), kereru (pigeons) and kaka. He also recorded many karakia and accounts of ritual...

Sir Apirana Ngata (1874-1950), Member of Parliament for nearly forty years and a cabinet minister, and Sir Peter Buck (1877-1951), a medical practitioner and politician turned anthropoligist, wrote to each other faithfully for a quarter of a century. Through their eloquent correspondence emerges not...

Amiria was born on the East Coast nearly one hundred years ago. The story begins with her birth at Tuparoa, a childhood spent in both her grandmothers' raupo hut and the magnificient Williams homestead, Kaharau. It leads the reader through Amirias school days, her taumau or arranged marriage to...

First published between 1887 and 1890, this six-volume work, containing Maori texts with English translations and commentary, and engraved illustrations, was one of the first printed records of the oral traditions of the Maori. The project was commissioned by the New Zealand government in 1879 when...