Author: RICHARDS, RHYS
Title: Moriori: Origins, Lifestyles and Language.
Description: Paremata, Paremata Press. 2018, First Edition. (ISBN: 9780473442026) Soft cover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, 262 pages, maps, b/w illustrations. A study of the Moriori people of the Chatham Islands in the South Pacific. Although they were the last part of the habitable world to receive human residents, the Chatham Islands at 44 degrees south, are windy and wet, but in no way sub-Antarctic. Tradition records that four double-canoes drifted to 'Rekohu', apparently before AD 1500, after which no further canoes and people arrived for three to four hundred years. The canoe people were all East Polynesians who mixed to become Tch Hiti and later were called Moriori. Despite their tropical origins, they soon developed sophisticated lifestyles as efficient huntergatherers who shifted from place to place in small groups to make the best use of seasonably available resources. Their foods came mainly from the sea and the lakes, plus prolific kopi nuts and fern roots. They developed simple tools well suited to their mobile lifestyles. New.

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