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… Iwi (1857), Te Whetu o te Tau (1858) and Ko Aotearoa or The Maori Recorder (1861–62). Davis also encouraged the idea of … Māori-language newspapers are also a source of church history in New Zealand. The first sponsored by a church was …
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Part of story: Māori newspapers and magazines – ngā niupepa me ngā moheni
… membership of the cabinet) the formation of the Pioneer and Maori Battalions which saw action in the world wars the …
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Part of story: Māori
… the whole of the southern hemisphere.’ 1 A focus on natural history New Zealand’s early museums initially concentrated on natural history, particularly geology. They were strongly connected … primitive cultures were often mixed in among natural history exhibits. Displays had a mix of table and wall …
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Part of story: Museums
… in the 1840s. Angas showed an early interest in natural history and drawing, but on completion of his education at … after a year, Angas studied briefly under the natural history artist Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins before making a … of Māori culture. His interests in ethnography and natural history, combined with his artistic ability, produced a …
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… Zealand ; a series of 11 books on aspects of the country’s history; Guy Scholefield’s Dictionary of New Zealand b … of New Zealand . Publishing success The publishing history of the Encyclopaedia of New Zealand suggests that … historical a tlas (1989–97), which surveyed New Zealand history through maps and graphics. In 1990 Minister of …
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Part of story: Te Ara – a history
… James Cook is a key figure in the history of New Zealand. On his first voyage he and his … visual and written record of the country’s natural history. Few lands newly discovered by Europeans have been …
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Part of story: European discovery of New Zealand
… 1940 Rongo Halbert devoted most of his life to studying the history and genealogy of Māori tribes, particularly those of … called 'Horouta', which he described as 'a comprehensive history of the Māori people of the Tairāwhiti district of …
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… Mother earth In Māori tradition and history, Papatūānuku is profoundly important. Papatūānuku is …
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Part of story: Papatūānuku – the land
… to collect and record information about the traditional history and culture of the Māori people, which was to form … his contemporaries to be a leading Pākehā authority on the history and traditions of the Māori race. He was co-founder … of articles, books, monographs and pamphlets on Polynesian history, mythology, customs and tribal lore. His major works …
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… An early example was James Cowan, who became enthralled by history while growing up on a farm on the Ōrakau battle … Waikato 1800–2000 , was published in 2016. Museums Local history research was boosted when the Te Awamutu Historical … Creek, Hamilton, give insights into Waikato’s economic history. Waikato views As a teenager, writer Frank Sargeson …
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Part of story: Waikato region
… of the greatest movements from a single country in modern history. Throughout the latter part of the 19th century, …
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Part of story: Italians
… military achievement, and also in culture. Musings in Maoriland There were three significant expressions of these … to Thomas Bracken’s volume of poems, Musings in Maoriland , published for the country’s 50th jubilee Robert … wrote travel accounts investing the landscape with Māori history, and in the 1920s he published his history of the …
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Part of story: Arts and the nation
… and entertainment have been a constant feature of their history. Overview of New Zealand museums In 2012 New Zealand … staff. Many smaller museums cover the local history of their areas. Others are devoted to particular … serve an important social purpose, providing information on history, culture and science. This enables people to learn …
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Part of story: Museums
… War Memorial Museum’s galleries on New Zealand’s military history and its armoury collection Museum of Transport and … collection Otago Museum’s strong focus on Māori, colonial history and natural history of the Otago region, along with their tropical …
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Part of story: Museums
… in turn the societies of modern Europe. Müller equated the history of language with the history of race, and believed that a single Aryan ancestry …
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Part of story: Ideas about Māori origins
… of Māori settlement by canoe from Polynesia, pointing to a history of about 700 years. Pre-canoe stories In addition to … longevity of tenure and a sense of ancestral authority and history for those who follow. …
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Part of story: First peoples in Māori tradition
… Best , an eminent ethnographer and authority on Māori history and tradition. Her maternal grandfather, W. E. … Society . Her interest in New Zealand colonial social history had been sparked at the age of 16 by Gudgeon, but it … She described her book as ‘a potpourri of early social history mainly related to the military settlements’. This …
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… Colenso and Henry Hill, and began to form his collection of Maori artefacts. While living in Hawke's Bay he published a … well as publishing a bibliography of literature about the Maori people, he began writing the work for which he is best … to the establishment of collections relating to Maori history, art and culture the natural history collections of …
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… processes consequently led him to an increasing interest in history. By the mid 1850s he was working on bringing all his … story of New Zealand , the country's first major written history, appears to have been largely completed when Thomson … appreciatively from translated waiata. Thomson believed his history benefited the Māori. He saw himself castigating …
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… New Zealand writing about history has often distinguished between ‘discovery’, which …
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Part of story: European exploration