Maori storehouses and kindred structures : houses, platforms, racks, and pits used for storing food, etc.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Bulletin (New Zealand. Dominion Museum) ; no. 5.Publisher: Wellington, N.Z., A.R. Shearer : [publisher not identified], 1974Description: 116 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720.8999442
  • 993.1
LOC classification:
  • GN667.5 .B47 1916
Partial contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 720.8999442 BES (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A010899B

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.

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