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| Shopify Unique ID: | 10823954530596 |
| SKU: | A5L/2609/UXXX |
| Trademe Reference: | PR1463 (12) |
| Category: |
New Zealand History: Early Maori & Colonial New Zealand: Maori & Te Reo |
| New / Used: | Used |
Description
THE MAORI DIVISION OF TIME
by Elsdon Best
DESCRIPTION
Format: small cloth board hardcover
Published: W.A.G. Skinner 1922
Size (mm): 155 w x 240 h x 5 d
Pages: 66
SKU: A5L/2609/UXXX
ABOUT
Dominion Museum Monograph No. 4.
Provides a detailed scholarly exploration of traditional Māori ethnoastronomy, lunar calendars, seasonal cycles, and how time-marking phenomena were personified in Māori culture.
The central illustration depicts a traditional wood-carving aesthetic common across the Dominion Museum's early monograph series.
Elsdon Best (1856–1931), a prominent ethnographer who recorded traditional Māori knowledge.
No images
CONDITION
Immaculate for age with wear/marks on covers, pages otherwise compete and clean, name on title page.
IMAGES
Are of the actual item and depict all need to know detail.
REMARKS
Scarce
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