The Maori As He Was : A Brief Account of Life as it Was in Pre-European Days
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By Elsdon Best.
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Mentioned in
- A Bibliography of Online Resources for the "Moko; or Maori Tattooing" Project
- Kōtare 2008, Special Issue — Essays in New Zealand Literary Biography Series Two: ‘Early Male Prose Writers’
- Making New Zealand vol 01 no 02: The Maori
- Mokomokai: Commercialization and Desacralization
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.jpg "This scraper-board drawing shows a 'tuahu' or 'wahi tapu' (sacred place), where various religious and magical rites were performed. In 'The Maori As He Was' Elsdon Best states that each of these stones represented a certain 'atua' (god)")
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