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Elsdon Best

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Elsdon Best

Born

in Tawa Flat, New Zealand

June 30, 1853

Died

September 09, 1931

Genre

An ethnographer who made important contributions to the study of the Māori of New Zealand.

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Elsdon Best’s books

Average rating: 3.68 · 50 ratings · 7 reviews · 93 distinct works

	Tuhoe: The Children of the Mist Vol 1 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1925	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Maori Religion and Mythology, Part 1 3.55 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1924 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	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.) 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Maori As He Was 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1924	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spiritual and mental concepts of the Maori (Dominion Museum monograph) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2015 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Maori Agriculture 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1976 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fishing Methods and Devices of the Maori really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1979 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Maori division of time (Dominion Museum monograph) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2014 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Astronomical Knowledge of the Maori, Genuine and Empirical/Bound With 'the Maori Division of Time' it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1922 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Waikare-Moana, the Sea of the Rippling Waters; The Lake, the Land, the Legends (Classic Reprint): With a Tramp Through Tuhoe Land really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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