Download or read book The Morioris of Chatham Islands written by Henry Devenish Skinner and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Morioris of Chatham Islands written by H.D. SKINNER and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Morioris of Chatham Islands written by Henry Devenish Skinner and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book MORIORIS OF CHATHAM ISLANDS written by H. D. SKINNER and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Morioris of Chatham Islands Classic Reprint written by H. D. Skinner and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-25 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Morioris of Chatham Islands My attention was first turned to the material culture of the Morioris about the year 1906. The view that then prevailed in New Zealand, a view which has been supported by the weighty authority of Percy Smith was that the ancestors Of the Morioris were representatives Of the earliest ethnic wave into New Zealand, whence they had been driven by later and more warlike immigrants from Tahiti. If this were the true account Of their origin, and the Morioris did represent the earliest stratum Of mankind in New Zealand, it was evident that a study Of their social system, of their religion, and of their art would yield results of the first importance in any attempt that might be made to write the history of society. Religion, or material culture in New Zealand. There were, however, several facts which seemed to indicate that the problem Of Maori and Moriori origins was not so simple as the current explanation assumed. That explanation was based on traditional evidence derived from the Maoris, for Moriori tradition was vague and uncertain. The Maori tradition stated that the people whom the Tahitians found in New Zealand were black and that their culture was extremely primitive. But Moriori culture, though simple, was not in any way more primitive than that Of the Maoris. And since a series of investigations in Moriori craniology had shown that the Morioris were in no degree less Polynesian than the Maoris, it became evident the Maori traditional account was not in consonance with the facts, and that an examination Of all other lines of evidence was called for. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Morioris written by Henry Devenish Skinner and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Morioris of the Chatham Islands written by Henry Devenish Skinner and published by . This book was released on 1989-08-01 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Moriori People of the Chatham Islands written by Alexander Shand and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Moriori written by Michael King and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A book to be treasured for the access it gives us to a little-known corner of the New Zealand experience.' Tipene O'Regan, Evening Post This award-winning, trail-blazing book by Michael King restored the Moriori of the Chatham Islands to their rightful place in New Zealand, Pacific and world history. This revised edition contains material that has come to light since first publication. 'King has set the record straight in a richly readable and often moving account of a long ignored sideshow to the history of our country.' Gordon McLauchlan, National Business Review 'It is authoritative but it is also popular history in the best sense, and that is precisely what is needed to clear away the brambles of racial prejudice and historical error which have all but overwhelmed the subject in the past.' Atholl Anderson, Otago Daily Times 'This book decisively strips away all the muddle . . . a clear, thoroughly readable and honest history of the Moriori.' Judith Binney, Sunday Star 'A timely book which must be read so that we will all know more about ourselves and about us as a nation.' Hirini Moko Mead, Dominion
Download or read book A Land Apart written by Michael King and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dendroglyphs of the Chatham Islands written by Christina Jefferson and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Where the Rekohu Bone Sings written by Tina Makereti and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2014-03-07 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Chatham Islands/ Rekohu to London, from 1835 to the 21st century, this quietly powerful and compelling novel confronts the complexity of being Moriori, Maori and Pakeha. In the 1880s, Mere yearns for independence. Iraia wants the same but, as the descendant of a slave, such things are hardly conceivable. One summer, they notice their friendship has changed, but if they are ever to experience freedom they will need to leave their home in the Queen Charlotte Sounds. A hundred years later, Lula and Bigs are born. The birth is literally one in a million, as their mother, Tui, likes to say. When Tui dies, they learn there is much she kept secret and they, too, will need to travel beyond their world, to an island they barely knew existed. Neither Mere and Iraia nor Lula and Bigs are aware that someone else is part of their journeys. He does not watch over them so much as through them, feeling their loss and confusion as if it were his own.
Download or read book Birds of the Chatham Islands written by Hilary Aikman and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive book on the bird of the Chatham Islands, written by 2 Dept. of Conservation experts. All 68 breeding species are illustrated with colour photos and distribution maps. Includes such iconic species as black robin, Chatham Islands taiko and albatross.
Download or read book Lost World of R kohu written by Jeffrey D. Stilwell and published by . This book was released on 2023-04-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lost World of Rēkohu explores the extraordinary fossil record of one of the most remote regions of the planet--the Chatham Islands. Once the home of the mysterious Moriori people, this archipelago approximately 850km east of mainland New Zealand preserves a rock archive from a dynamic time in Earth's history when the southern continents were land-locked together near the South Pole 100 million years ago. Isolated for 83 million years, we now know since the dawn of the new millennium that this ancient region was heavily forested with both avian and non-avian dinosaurs, and the warm waters hosted the largest sea monsters--marine reptiles--that ever lived. This diversity of life on land and in the sea tells a tale never told before in Zealandia, the Moriori's magical land of the 'Misty Skies'.
Download or read book A Maverick Traveller written by Mary Jane Walker and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-13 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Jane has travelled to all corners of the globe, to large cities to the outskirts and tiny islands off the coast of continents. This book is testament to her travels, discoveries and adventures. A mixture of laughter and sadness it is a reflection of her time spent abroad to date. Her love of travel takes her to Ben Nevis in Scotland, Mont Blanc in France, naked on a Chinese Junk, kicking a nuclear submarine and even visiting a secretive US military base. She has seen iconic buildings like Antonio Gaudi's buildings in Spain, the Taj Mahal, St Basil's Cathedral and even climbed the foothills of Mount Everest to basecamp! This is an intriguing book filled with amazing travel stories, the story of Mary Jane Walker.
Download or read book Outcasts of the Gods written by Hazel Petrie and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-25 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Us Maoris used to practice slavery just like them poor Negroes had to endure in America . . .' says Beth Heke in Once Were Warriors. ‘Oh those evil colonials who destroyed Maori culture by ending slavery and cannibalism while increasing the life expectancy,' wrote one sarcastic blogger. So was Maori slavery ‘just like' the experience of Africans in the Americas and were British missionaries or colonial administrators responsible for ending the practice? What was the nature of freedom and unfreedom in Maori society and how did that intersect with the perceptions of British colonists and the anti-slavery movement? A meticulously researched book, Outcasts of the Gods? looks closely at a huge variety of evidence to answer these questions, analyzing bondage and freedom in traditional Maori society; the role of economics and mana in shaping captivity; and how the arrival of colonists and new trade opportunities transformed Maori society and the place of captives within it.
Download or read book Moriori written by Rhys Richards and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moriori : Origins, Lifestyles and Language is the outcome of independent personal research by Rhys Richards since 1960. Although they were the last part of the habitable world to receive human residents, the Chatham Islands at 44 degrees south, are windy and wet, but in no way sub Antarctic. Tradition records that four double-canoes drifted to Rekohu, apparently before AD 1500, after which no further canoes and people arrived for three to four hundred years. The canoe people were all East Polynesians who mixed to become Tch Hiti and later were called Moriori. Despite their tropical origins, they soon developed sophisticated lifestyles as efficient huntergatherers who shifted from place to place in small groups to make the best use of seasonably available resources. Their foods came mainly from the sea and the lakes, plus prolific kopi nuts and fern roots. They developed simple tools well suited to their mobile lifestyles. There were at least 2,000 Moriori when the first foreigners visited in 1791, followed by sealers from about 1810. Two Maori tribes fleeing from musket wars in New Zealand invaded Rekohu in 1835. The Moriori, a very sacred people, obeyed their traditional vows never to kill anyone, so not one of the Maori invaders was killed. However in order to establish their perceived rights of conquest, the Maori killed over 200 Moriori and enslaved the survivors, who were often treated harshly. Few Moriori women had Moriori children. Slavery continued until 1855 and intimidation until about 1870. By then most of the Moriori had died, disheartened and deserted by their gods, while foreign diseases killed many. The few Moriori who had survived, under 100, were treated as doomed, and in 1870 the Land Courts allowed them only 3% of their former land. The last Moriori without any foreign genes died in 1933. By then the Moriori language was extinct. A few words had been collected before 1887, but no grammar. These remnants show that the Moriori language was closely similar to Maori, but with very different pronunciation, and was also similar to the old language of Easter Island.
