Tainui


Book Description

"... An official collection of Māori historical traditions"--BIM.







The Ancient History of the Maori, His Mythology and Traditions


Book Description

Published 1887-90, this six-volume compilation of Maori oral literature, with English translations, contains traditions about deities, origins and warfare.










He Whiriwhiringa


Book Description

This volume combines the Maori texts from "Selected Readings in Maori" (3rd ed 1990) and the English translations of those texts, from "Readings from Maori Literature" (1980). The texts and their English translations are published in parallel on facing pages, for ease of comparison. The Maori texts are drawn from various sources.




The Journal of the Polynesian Society


Book Description

Vols. for 1892-1941 contain the transactions and proceedings of the society.




Deep River Talk


Book Description

An anthology by a Maori poet from New Zealand. In Dour Note on a Sunny Winter's Morning, he writes: "I am unacquainted with the world's / sadnesses, knowing only / its specificities on the pain / of separation--the aftermath / of joyful couplings that were / unproclaimed--of births that are / unadvertised / and a million more looking like / death with never a listing on tomb / or tabloid, obelisk.







Ngā mōteatea


Book Description

With Foreword/ Preface to previous Book 4 edition. The text features: songs of Book 4, Index to songs, Index of song authors, tribes and their songs, list of CD tracks. With accompanying audio CDs. Suitable for self-study, and developing listening and reading skills.