Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931
Best, Elsdon
Elsdon Best New Zealand historian
Elsdon Best New Zealand historian (1856–1931)
VIAF ID: 51751128 ( Personal )
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4xx's: Alternate Name Forms (16)
5xx's: Related Names (3)
- 500 1 _ ‡a Ngahau, Tutaka ‡d ca. 1830-1907 ‡4 beza ‡4 https://d-nb.info/standards/elementset/gnd#acquaintanceshipOrFriendship ‡e Bekanntschaft
- 551 _ _ ‡a Tawa Flat, Neuseeland ‡4 ortg ‡4 https://d-nb.info/standards/elementset/gnd#placeOfBirth
- 551 _ _ ‡a Wellington ‡4 orts ‡4 https://d-nb.info/standards/elementset/gnd#placeOfDeath
Works
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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 phenomena | |
Best of Tawa : Porirua, and they who settled it : first published in the Canterbury times, 11 March 1914 to 1 July 1914 | |
Fishing methods and devices of the Maori | |
Maori agriculture : The cultivated food plants of the natives of New Zealand, with some account of native methods of agriculture, its ritual and origin myths | |
The Maori as he was : a brief account of Maori life as it was in pre-European days | |
Maori canoe | |
The Maori canoe : an account of various types of vessels used by the Maori of New Zealand in former times, with some description of those of the Isles of the Pacific, and a brief account of the peopling of New Zealand | |
Maori division of time | |
Māori eschatology | |
Māori numeration | |
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 | |
The Maori School of Learning Its Objects, Methods, and Ceremonial | |
Maori storehouses and kindred structures houses, platforms, racks, and pits used for storing food, etc. | |
The mythopoetic Maori : His genius for personification as seen in his mythological concepts | |
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 Maori | |
Notes on the custom of Rahui : Its application and manipulation, as also its supposed powers, its rites, invocations and superstitions | |
The pa maori, an account of the fortified villages of the Maori in pre-European and modern times ... | |
Polynesian voyagers The Maori as a deep-sea navigator, explorer, and colonizer | |
Some aspects of Maori myth and religion | |
Spiritual and mental concepts of the Maori | |
The stone implements ... 1912. | |
Tuhoe | |
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. | |
Two letters from Hari Heemara Wahanui to Elsdon Best--June 1917 | |
Waikare-moana, the Sea of the Rippling Waters : the lake, the land, the legends, with a tramp through Tuhoe Land | |
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 Zealand |