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

By:

Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931

Material type: Text

TextSeries: 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

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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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