Author: SMITH, S. PERCY. Title: Maori Wars Of The Nineteenth Century. The Struggle Of The Northern Against The Southern Tribes prior to the Colonization Of New Zealand in 1840.
Description: Facsimile of the Second And Enlarged Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. 490; b/w portrait frontispiece, 20 b/w illustrations, chronological table of contents; appendix, index, bound in original blue boards with title lettered in gilt on spine and front board, spine fadded, good copy. Christchurch; Capper Press Ltd.; 1984. Unique descriptions of Maori warfare and way of life including of the way and why Tiki are manufactured, ceremonies before war, opening a new house, cannibalism. war songs, Maori war canoes with funnel type sails; descriptions of Maoris in beserker type rages and much more.
Keywords: South Pacific Region New Zealand Maori Cannibalism Pacific Tiki
Price: AUD 100.00 = appr. US$ 69.19 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 126414