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Elsdon Best (30 June 1856 – 9 September 1931) was an ethnographer who made important contributions to the study of the Māori of New Zealand. (From Wikipedia) More about Elsdon Best:
| | Books by Elsdon Best: ![[Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/info.gif) Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931: Tuhoe, the Children of the Mist: A Sketch of the Origin, History, Myths and Beliefs of the Tuhoe Tribe of the Maori of New Zealand; With Some Account of Other Early Tribes of the Bay of Plenty District (Memoirs of the Polynesian Society v6; 2 volumes; New Plymouth, NZ: Printed by T. Avery, 1925)
Additional books by Elsdon Best in the extended shelves:![[X-Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/infouc.gif) Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931: The astronomical knowledge of the Maori, genuine and empirical : including data concerning their systems of astrogeny, astrolatry, and natural astrology, with notes on certain other natural phenomena (Dominion Museum, 1922) (page images at HathiTrust)- Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931: The discovery & re-discovery of Wellington harbor (Palmer & Mahood, 1918) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931: The discovery & re-discovery of Wellington harbour with remarks by early voyagers on the local natives, etc. (Palmer & Mahood, 1918), also by Wellington Harbour Board (page images at HathiTrust)
- Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931: Maori agriculture : The cultivated food plants of the natives of New Zealand, with some account of native methods of agriculture, its ritual and origin myths (Board of Maori Ethnological Research, 1925) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931: The Maori as he was: a brief account of Maori life as it was in pre-European days (Dominion museum, 1924) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931: The Maori canoe. (W. A. G. Skinner, government printer, 1925) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931: The Maori school of learning : its objects, methods and ceremonial. (R.E. Owen, Gov't Printer, 1959) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931: The mythopoetic Maori : his genius for personification as seen in his mythological concepts. (T. Avery, 1922) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931: The pa maori, an account of the fortified villages of the Maori in pre-European and modern times; illustrating methods of defence by means of ramparts, fosses, scraps and stockades. (Printed by Whitcombe and Tombs, 1927) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931: Social usages of the Maori. (Printed at the office of The Maoriland Worker Printing and Pub. Co., 1918) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931: Spiritual and mental concepts of the Maori. (W.A.G. Skinner, Government Printer, 1922) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931: Waikare-moana, the Sea of the Rippling Waters: the lake; the land; the legends. With a tramp through Tuhoe land. (J. Mackay, Govt. Printer, 1897), also by New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey (page images at HathiTrust)
- Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931: Whare kohanga and its lore (W.A.G. Skinner, Govt. Printer, 1929) (page images at HathiTrust)
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