This classic of ethnography describes Maori tattooing (moko), which communicates the bearer's genealogy, tribal affiliation, and spirituality. This definitive study relates how moko first became known to Europeans and discusses the distinctions between men and women's moko, patterns and designs, and moko in legend and song...

Mäori, the indigenous language of New Zealand, is an endangered, minority language, with an important role in the Mäori community's culture and identity. This comprehensive overview looks at all aspects of the Mäori language: its history, its dialects, its sounds and grammar, and the efforts being made by its speakers to ensure its survival...

Nga Tai Matatu: Tides of Maori Endurance describes and analyzes the position of the Maori people and Maori interests at the start of the third millennium. It also recognises the journeys from the past and makes projections into the future...

This Elibron Classics edition is a facsimile reprint of a 1896 edition by Chapman and Hall, Ltd., London.

A thorough guide to the Maori language, this introduction for the general reader assumes no prior knowledge and offers a comprehensive course of lessons and exercises, together with pronunciation advice and an extensive vocabulary, for successful study.

A details guide to Maori myths and legends, religious beliefs, folklore and history. More than 380 entires, arranged alphabetically, reveal the subtlety and complexity of the traditional Maori view of the world.

The Maori people of New Zealand were experienced field engineers even before they came into conflict with Europeans in the 19th Century. Warfare between rival groups was endemic in Maori society, and it was common practice to protect villages with surrounding entrenchments and wooden palisades, known as pas...

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc...

The colours and patterns of the art of the Pacific Islands - spears and shields, carved canoe prows, feather capes or tortoisehell ornaments - have interested Western audiences since the voyages of Captain Cook and Bougainville...

A two volume set written in English, German and French throughout, include an introduction to the physical and historical situation of the South Pacific Island cultures and sections devoted to each cultural area of Oceania...

Comprising thousands of islands and hundreds of cultural groups, Polynesia and Micronesia cover a large part of the vast Pacific Ocean, from the dramatic mountains of Hawaii to the small, flat coral islands of Kiribati...

In the West, hairstyle choices range from the purely functional to the complex fashion statement. In the African continent their significance is far greater. Hair can be an indicator of age, authority, social status, and religious affiliation, as well as part of a long tradition of aesthetic adornment or a strictly contemporary style statement...

The seat is an object of great cultural and artistic importance in Africa. This beautifully illustrated volume offers a fascinating look at the dazzling variety of chairs, stools, backrests, and thrones that have been used throughout in sub-Saharan Africa for centuries...