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MR. ELSDON BEST has written for the New Zealand Board of Missions an account of the Maori when they first became known to Europeans, interpreted in the light of later knowledge, and by his own familiar acquaintance with native customs and ideas. The work covers the whole range of Maori anthropology.
New Zealand Board of Science and Art.
Manual No. 4: The Maori as he was; a Brief Account of Maori Life as it was in Pre-European Days. By Elsdon Best. Pp. xv + 280. (Wellington, N.Z.: Dominion Museum, 1924.) n.p.
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RAY, S. New Zealand Board of Science and Art . Nature 117, 42 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/117042a0
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