Author: Rout, Ettie A.
Title: Maori symbolism. Being an account of the origin, migration, and culture of the New Zealand Maori as recorded in certain sacred legends. Report made by Ettie A. Rout from the evidence of Hohepa Te Rake. With a preface by Sir William Arbuthnot Lane. [First English edition].
Description: London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1926. XXXII,322 pp. 18 b./w. figs in text & 32 b./w. plts (incl. frontispiece). Orig. hardcover (blind stamped maroon cloth with letterpiece on spine & gilt dec. on front cover. 8vo. - Cover sl. discol. & with some very light staines; top of spine very sl. dam.Fairly rare first English edition. Includes a short treatise on Maori facial tattoos. According to the renowned New Zealand collector Austin Graham Bagnall, this work contains a series of unsubstantiated speculations about the origins of Mãori culture.

Keywords: Ethnography Australia Oceania Tattoo & Body decoration Etnografie Australië Oceanië Tatouage & Lichaamsversiering