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Elsdon Best

1856–1931

Also known as Best Elsdon, Elsdon 1856-1931 Best

77 works

1878–1955 across 36 dated works

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Recueil d'itinéraires et de voyages dans l'Asie centrale et l'extrême Orient ...1878
Waikare-moana, the Sea of the Rippling Waters: the lake; the land; the legends. With a tramp through Tuhoe land.1897
The Stone Implements of the Maori1912
Spiritual and mental concepts of the Maori1922

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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 stockades1927
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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 phenomena1955
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The Stone Implements of the Maori1912
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Waikare-Moana, the Sea of the Rippling Waters2018
With New Zealand. Dept. of Lands and Survey
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Maori Division of Time2018
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Spiritual and mental concepts of the Maori1922
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The Maori division of time1922
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Some aspects of Maori myth and religion1954
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Waikare-moana, the Sea of the Rippling Waters: the lake; the land; the legends. With a tramp through Tuhoe land.1897
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Notes on the art of war: as conducted by the Maori of New Zealand, with accounts of various customs, rites, superstitions, &c., pertaining to war, as practised and believed in by the ancient Maori2001
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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.1942
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The Maori1924
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The Maori as he was: a brief account of Maori life as it was in pre-European days1924
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The Maori school of learning: its objects, methods and ceremonial.1923
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Some Aspects of Maori Myth and Religion; Volume 12018
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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.1924
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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 ...1924
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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.1925
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Recueil d'itinéraires et de voyages dans l'Asie centrale et l'extrême Orient ...1878
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The astronomical knowledge of the Maori geniune and empirical, including data concerning their systems of astrogeny, astrolatry, and natural astrology, with notes on certain other natural phenomena1955
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The mythopoetic Maori: his genius for personification as seen in his mythological concepts.1922
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Mythopoetic Maori His Genius for Personification As Seen in His Mythological Concepts2018
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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 rituals and origin myths1925
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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 Zealand1929
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