History of Māori of Nelson and Marlborough
History of Māori of Nelson and Marlborough

Author: Hilary Mitchell

Publisher: Huia Publishers

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13: 9781869690878

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"Volume One, Te Tangata me te Whenua - the people and the land, encompasses myths and legends of the region, the succession of tribes who have inhabited Te Tau Ihu o te Waka and their interactions, early encounters with Europeans, the arrival of the New Zealand Company, the Treaty of Waitangi, land transactions, and the administration of Maori Resserves." - p. 16.

Prodigious Birds
Prodigious Birds

Author: Atholl Anderson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-10-30

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9780521543965

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Prodigious Birds brings together the entire field of moa-related research, some 150 years of enquiry. The moa was a large flightless bird, hunted into extinction by the Maori tribes of New Zealand before the arrival of Europeans. Atholl Anderson brings an historical perspective to the development of moa research and its formative debates, analytical methods and results, reviewing evidence from palaeontology, biology, archaeology, ethnography and history.