The Maori Race
The Maori Race
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This rare book is an important early contribution to the cultural and historical understanding of the Tangata Whenua of Aotearoa New Zealand.
In 1904 Edward Tregear, the former secretary of labour, published The Maori Race. It was dedicated to the ethnographer Elsdon Best - "keen scholar, and true lover of the Maori people".
With a preface by S. Percy Smith, president of the Polynesian Society. Smith noted that a single book on Māori had long been lacking, and that those wishing to learn about the subject had been forced instead to 'search the thirty-six volumes of the New Zealand Institute, the thirteen volumes of the Journal of the Polynesian Society' and various other works. Now there was a single, comprehensive account of the people, their myths, legends and unique way of life.
Author: Edward Tregear
Published by: A D Willis, Wanganui, rare First Edition 1904
Cloth hard cover, gilted cover and spine. 592pp, illus, pictorial brown cloth.
VG, excellent overall condition for age.
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