Maori Religion and Mythology

No signatures. Some rubbing to ends of spine with a couple of 3mm tears at head of spine. Gutters split at endpapers. Rear free endpaper almost detached. Some marking to preliminary and final leaves. ; ix, [3], 112 pages + advertisements. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 180mm x 120mm. Title continues, "Illustrated By Translations Of Traditions, Karakia, & C. To Which Are Added Notes On Maori Tenure Of Land." [References: Bagnall 5160 : "Material collected by Dr Shortland during his first tem in New Zealand, on Maori religious beliefs and ceremonies, cosmology and mythology, the nature of chieftainship, Maori land tenure and the naming of land. Information from informants of high authority which the writer recorded with a degree of accuracy and rapport unusual for the period."; Hocken p. 343 : "Cosmogony, religious rites, land-tenure, terms of Maori relationship; karakia or invocation, and new words."]

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Publisher: Longmans, Green, and Co

Year: 1882

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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