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Hawaiki : a new approach to Maori tradition / Margaret Orbell.
- Title
- Hawaiki : a new approach to Maori tradition / Margaret Orbell.
- Author
- Orbell, Margaret, 1934-2006
- Publication
- Christchurch : Canterbury University Press, 1991.
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- Description
- 81 p. : ill.; 30 cm.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Folklore
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 69-74) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Preface -- The homeland (The actual history ; Related place-names ; Early scholars' interpretations ; Stories set in Hawaiki ; The last Hawaiki ; More recent scholarship ; The source of life ; Hawaiki's inaccessibility ; Hawaiki in the east ; Hawaiki in the west)
- The voyages ('They never believed it' ; Ancestors here in the beginning ; Kupe the precursor ; The ancestors' arrival ; The preparations ; The karakia ; Parallel occurrences ; Sacred landmarks ; Voyages back to Hawaiki ; The Great Fleet)
- The new land (Plants and animals ; Other treasures ; The tohunga ; Volcanic power ; Place-names relating to ancestors ; Tamatea and his fire ; Rivers and lakes ; South Island mountains ; The Northland hypothesis)
- ISBN
- 0908812159
- OCLC
- 28069512
- SCSB-12024501
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library