Maori storehouses and kindred structures : houses, platforms, racks, and pits used for storing food, etc.
Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931
Maori storehouses and kindred structures : houses, platforms, racks, and pits used for storing food, etc. - 116 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. - New Zealand. Dominion Museum. Bulletin ; no. 5 . - Bulletin (New Zealand. Dominion Museum) ; no. 5. .
Raised storehouses (Pataka) -- Adornment of the Pataka -- Ordinary storehouses -- Platforms or stages -- Semi-subterranean food-stores -- Pit stores (Rua poka) -- Cave stores -- East-coast types -- Notes by Ven. Archdeacon Walsh.
Elsdon Best was a prolific recorder of pre-European Maori social life and material culture. His was a lifelong project underpinned by a belief that Maori were a people under threat from extinction, yet by the time of his death in 1931 Best's work had assumed new importance as it informed a Maori cultural renaissance. Today, the Elsdon Best books are accepted as classic studies. They remain a uniquely valuable record of traditional Maori culture, social customs and beliefs.
Māori (New Zealand people)
Pātaka
Marae.
Pā
Whakairo
GN667.5 .B47 1916
720.8999442 993.1
Maori storehouses and kindred structures : houses, platforms, racks, and pits used for storing food, etc. - 116 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. - New Zealand. Dominion Museum. Bulletin ; no. 5 . - Bulletin (New Zealand. Dominion Museum) ; no. 5. .
Raised storehouses (Pataka) -- Adornment of the Pataka -- Ordinary storehouses -- Platforms or stages -- Semi-subterranean food-stores -- Pit stores (Rua poka) -- Cave stores -- East-coast types -- Notes by Ven. Archdeacon Walsh.
Elsdon Best was a prolific recorder of pre-European Maori social life and material culture. His was a lifelong project underpinned by a belief that Maori were a people under threat from extinction, yet by the time of his death in 1931 Best's work had assumed new importance as it informed a Maori cultural renaissance. Today, the Elsdon Best books are accepted as classic studies. They remain a uniquely valuable record of traditional Maori culture, social customs and beliefs.
Māori (New Zealand people)
Pātaka
Marae.
Pā
Whakairo
GN667.5 .B47 1916
720.8999442 993.1