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Elsdon Best
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in Tawa Flat, New Zealand
June 30, 1853
Died
September 09, 1931
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An ethnographer who made important contributions to the study of the Māori of New Zealand.
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Tuhoe: The Children of the Mist Vol 1
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Maori Religion and Mythology, Part 1
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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, ... Notes on (Dominion Museum Bulletin, No. 14.)
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The Maori As He Was
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— published 1924
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Spiritual and mental concepts of the Maori (Dominion Museum monograph)
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Maori Agriculture
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Fishing Methods and Devices of the Maori
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The Maori division of time (Dominion Museum monograph)
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The Astronomical Knowledge of the Maori, Genuine and Empirical/Bound With 'the Maori Division of Time'
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— published 1922 —
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Waikare-Moana, the Sea of the Rippling Waters; The Lake, the Land, the Legends (Classic Reprint): With a Tramp Through Tuhoe Land
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