TY  - BOOK
AU  - Best,Elsdon
TI  - Maori storehouses and kindred structures: houses, platforms, racks, and pits used for storing food, etc
T2  - New Zealand. Dominion Museum. Bulletin
AV  - GN667.5 .B47 1916 
U1  - 720.8999442 
PY  - 1974///
CY  - Wellington, N.Z., A.R. Shearer
PB  - [publisher not identified]
KW  - Māori (New Zealand people)
KW  - Pātaka
KW  - reo
KW  - Marae
KW  - Pā
KW  - Whakairo
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -