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Story: Te aitanga pepeke – the insect world

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  • Miller, David. ‘The insect people of the Maori.’ Journal of the Polynesian Society 61 (1952): 1–61.
  • Pond, Wendy. ‘Parameters of Oceanic Science.’ Science of Pacific Island peoples: fauna, flora, food & medicine, nā John Morrison mā i ētita. Putanga III. Suva: Institute of Pacific Studies, 1994.
  • Te Pēhi (Best, Elsdon). Tuhoe: the children of the mist. Wellington: The Board of Maori Ethnological Research, Te Rōpū Poronihiana, 1925.
  • Thornton, Agathe. The birth of the universe – Te whānautanga o te ao tukupū: Māori oral cosmogony from the Wairarapa. Auckland: Reed, 2004.
  • Whatahoro, H. T., te whakapākehātanga nā Te Mete (S. Percy Smith). The lore of the whare-wānanga. Wāhanga 1, Kauwae-runga. Facsim. ed. Christchurch: Kiwi, c. 1998.
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Bradford Haami, Te aitanga pepeke – the insect world, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/story/7769/sources (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Bradford Haami, published 24 September 2007.