Te Tohunga: The ancient legends and traditions of the Maoris

by W. (Wilhelm) Dittmer

EN·~2 hours·27 chapters

Chapters

27 total

Transcriber’s Note: Captions have been added to the full-page illustrations.

0:11

TE TOHUNGA

0:30

LIST OF CONTENTS

1:26

LIST OF FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS

1:06

GLOSSARY

2:02

PREFACE

4:08

Introduction

7:33

I TIKI—THE ANCESTOR OF MANKIND

8:13

II THE CREATION OF HAWAIKI

9:20

III THE POI-DANCE

6:39

Description

Illustrated by the author.

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Mythology, Legends & Folklore

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Duration

~2 hours (161K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2017-04-26

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54610

Subjects

Mythology, Maori Māori (New Zealand people) -- Folklore Folklore -- New Zealand GR

About the author

W. (Wilhelm) Dittmer

1866–1909

Best known for bringing Māori legends to a wider readership in the early 1900s, this German-born writer and artist created a book that mixed storytelling with his own vivid illustrations. His work offers a glimpse of how New Zealand traditions were being presented to English-language readers at the time.

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