Elsdon Best

New Zealand historian (1856–1931)

Born	1856
Died	1931

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Forest lore of the Maori: with methods of snaring, trapping and preserving birds and rats, uses of berries, roots, fern-root and forest products with mythological notes on origins karakia used etc.

by Elsdon Best First published in 1942 — 7 editions

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MAORI.

by Elsdon Best First published in 1924 — 5 editions

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Maori as he was: a brief account of Maori life as it was in pre-European days.

by Elsdon Best First published in 1924 — 5 editions

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The Maori school of learning: its objects, methods and ceremonial.

by Elsdon Best First published in 1923 — 5 editions

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Waikare-Moana, the Sea of the Rippling Waters

by Elsdon Best and New Zealand. Dept. of Lands and Survey First published in 2018 — 4 editions

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The astronomical knowledge of the Maori: genuine and empirical : including data concerning their systems of astrogeny, astrolatry, and natural astrology, with notes on certain other natural phenomena

by Elsdon Best First published in 1955 — 4 editions
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Maori religion and mythology: being an account of the cosmogony, anthropogeny, religious beliefs and rites, magic and folk lore of the Maori folk of New Zealand ...

by Elsdon Best First published in 1924 — 4 editions

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The pa Maori: an account of the fortified villages of the Maori in the pre-European and modern times, illustrating methods of defence by means of ramparts, fosses, scarps and stockades

by Elsdon Best First published in 1927 — 4 editions

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Tuhoe, the children of the mist: a sketch of the origin, history, myths and beliefs of the Tuhoe tribe of the Maori of New Zealand, with some account of other early tribes of the Bay of Plenty district.

by Elsdon Best First published in 1925 — 4 editions

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Maori religion and mythology: being an account of the cosmogony, anthropogeny, religious beliefs and rites, magic and folk lore of the Maori folk of New Zealand

by Elsdon Best First published in 1924 — 4 editions

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Maori Division of Time

by Elsdon Best First published in 2018 — 3 editions

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The whare kohanga (the "nest house") and its lore: comprising data pertaining to procreation, baptism, and infant betrothal, &c., contributed by members of the Ngati-Kahungunu tribe of the North Island of New Zealand

by Elsdon Best First published in 1929 — 3 editions

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Spiritual and Mental Concepts of the Maori

by X and Elsdon Best First published in 1922 — 3 editions

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Mythopoetic Maori: His Genius for Personification As Seen in His Mythological Concepts

by Elsdon Best First published in 2018 — 3 editions

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Maori agriculture: the cultivated food plants of the natives of New Zealand, with some account of native methods of agriculture, its ritual and origin myths

by Elsdon Best First published in 1925 — 3 editions

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The Maori as he was: a brief account of Maori life as it was in pre-European days

by Elsdon Best First published in 1934 — 3 editions

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Maori canoe: an account of various types of vessels used by the Maori of New Zealand in former times, with some description of those of the Isles of the Pacific, and a brief account of the peopling of New Zealand

by Elsdon Best First published in 1925 — 3 editions

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Spiritual and mental concepts of the Maori

by Elsdon Best First published in 1922 — 3 editions
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The Stone Implements of the Maori

by Elsdon Best First published in 1912 — 3 editions

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Waikare-moana, the Sea of the Rippling Waters: the lake; the land; the legends. With a tramp through Tuhoe land.

by Elsdon Best First published in 1897 — 3 editions
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New Zealand historian (1856–1931)

Born	1856
Died	1931

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OLID: OL1046196A
GoodReads: 376173
ISNI: 000000008382040X
Library of Congress Names: n50011139
VIAF: 51751128
Wikidata: Q4085877
Inventaire.io: wd:Q4085877

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