Taonga

Tena koutou katoa
Nau mai, haere mai ki te kete o te waananga

Greetings to you all
Welcome to The Knowledge Basket’s Taonga collection

The Taonga database contains:

• Maori Land Court Minute Books Index
• Deeds of Settlement
• Waitangi Tribunal Reports
• Te Manutukutuku
• Stuff Interactive’s Treaty of Waitangi Settlement Summary

Carved Houses of Te Arawa

Carved Houses of Te Arawa – a Dominion Museum Records in Ethnology, Vol. 1 No. 2 (1948) publication by W.J Phillips and J.M. McEwen in now available as a browseable HTML file and as an ePub format eBook. Size Approx: 15MB

Carved Houses of Te Arawa (HTML)
Carved Houses of Te Arawa (ePub)

Elsdon Best

The author, Elsdon Best (1856-1931) was an ethnologist with the Dominion Museum for 20 years and in that time compiled an impressive number of publications on Māori history and lore.

Elsdon Best’s Monographs

These documents are in html format which allows for faster downloading.

DMM 1. Some Aspects of Maori Myth and Religion – By Elsdon Best
DMM 2. Spiritual and Mental Concepts of the Maori – By Elsdon Best
DMM 3. Astronomical Knowledge of the Maori – By Elsdon Best
DMM 4. The Maori Division of Time – By Elsdon Best
DMM 5. Polynesian Voyagers. The Maori as a Deep-sea Navigator, Explorer, and Colonizer – By Elsdon Best
DMM 6. The Maori School of Learning – By Elsdon Best

DMB 13. The Whare Kohanga (The Nest House) and its Lore – By Elsdon Best

Gilbert Archey

Gilbert Edward Archey, 1890 – 1974, was a zoologist, museum director, and ethnologist. Amongst many activities and services he performed was as director of the Auckland Institute and Museum. His study of Maori carving and sculpture resulted in several publications.
Gilbert Archey’s Sculpture and Design: an outline of Maori Art is presented here in html.

Sculpture and Design: an outline of Maori Art by Gilbert Archey

Contemporary Research

We are pleased to show taonga related to our Maori information resources in the form of a Thesis – The Land Court at Matakaoa, by Gail Dallimore; and a bibliography – A Bibliography of guides to Maori information, by Kirsty Stewart.
Thesis – The Land Court in Matakaoa
A Bibliography of Guides to Maori Information

Both these works are of immense importance to researchers, librarians and the wider community. We are very grateful to the authors for allowing these substantial works to be made available to the public, and thank them for their enormous patience in waiting to see the fruits of their labour on the internet.