The Ancient History of the Maori, His Mythology and Traditions


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




Tainui


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




He Whiriwhiringa


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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


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







Deep River Talk


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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.




Tai-nui


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