- 1976 Edition (1925). 334 pages incl. index
- Publisher: A R Shearer, Govenment Printer, NZ
- Format: Hard cover, maroon boards, dust jacket
- Condition: Very good, moderate fading and some rubbing to parts of d/j
Elsdon Best (30 June 1856 – 9 September 1931) was an ethnographer who made important contributions to the study of the M?ori of New Zealand.
In 1910, Best was appointed ethnologist at the Dominion Museum which allowed him to pursue his research in a more focused manner. In 1912, he published The Stone Implements of the Maori, which was followed four years later by an accompanying bulletin on M?ori storehouses. In 1919, his The Land of Tara appeared, a history of the M?ori of Wellington Harbour. A systematic survey of traditional M?ori culture, The Maori, appeared in two volumes in 1924, and in 1925 Best's Tuhoe, the Children of the Mist. This a monumental study in 1200 pages of the traditional history and culture of tribe with which he had spent so much of his life.
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