Maud's Journal
Legends of the Maori
30 January 2012 Arts, Latest News, Maori
Legends of the Maori by Maui Pomare and James Cowan Volume I: Mythology Folk-Lore Tradition and Poetry Volume II:Maori-Polynesian Historical Traditions Folk-Lore and Stories of Old New Zealand Illustrated with tipped-in B/W plates by Stuart Peterson Wellington: Harry H. Tombs, 1930. #83 of the de luxe edition of 300, signed by both authors and illustrator [...]
read more »Art of the Pacific
29 September 2011 Arts, Latest News, Maori, Pacific
Art of the Pacific with photographs by Brian Brake conversations with James McNeish and commentary by David Simmons Wellington: Oxford University Press, 1979 ISBN: 0195580435 240pp, colour & B/W plates $125.00
read more »Maori: Recent Arrivals
6 May 2011 Maori, New Zealand
Te Awa: Partington’s Photographs of Whanganui Maori Auckland: Godwit, 2003 ISBN: 1869620992 143pp, B/W plates Facsimiles of the Declaration of Independence and the Treaty of Waitangi Preface by Henry Turton, 1877, facsimiles of the ‘Declaration of Independence of New Zealand’ of 1835, the original draft of the Treaty of Waitangi by Hobson, and copies of [...]
read more »New Zealand Art: Recent Arrivals
21 August 2010 Arts, Latest News, Maori, New Zealand
Whakairo Maori Tribal Art by David Simmons Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1990 ISBN: 0195581199 188pp, colour & B/W plates, illus., maps on eps Te Aho Tapu the Sacred Thread Traditional Maori Weaving by Mick Pendergrast Auckland: Reed Books, 1994 ISBN: 0790003287 124pp, colour & B/W plates Parihaka The Art of Passive Resistance edited by Te [...]
read more »New Arrivals: Maori History
3 December 2008 Latest News, Maori
Alpers, Antony. Maori Myths and Tribal Legends. Illustrated by Patrick Hanly. Auckland: Longman Paul, 1985. $45.00 Andersen, Johannes C.. Maori Music with Its Polynesian Background. New Plymouth: Thomas Avery, 1934. First Edition. $365.00 Andersen, Johannes C.. Maori Life in Ao-tea. Christchurch: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1907. First Edition. $225.00 Barrow, T.. Traditional and Modern Music of [...]
read more »Reed Books
5 October 2008 Latest News, Maori, Natural History, New Zealand
Exclusive to Jason Books From the archives of iconic New Zealand publisher Reed Books A. H. Reed began publishing religious books in Dunedin in 1907 and was later joined in the business by his nephew, A. W Reed. A.H. & A. W. Reed went on to put in to print the voice of an emerging [...]
read more »Featured Book
14 August 2008 Arts, Maori, New Zealand
The Children of Rangi and Papa: The Maori Story of Creation. The beautiful first edition of this classic re-telling of the Maori creation myth through the art of Northland artist Pauline Kahurangi Yearbury. Folio, 38 full-page colour plates, published by Whitcoulls, 1976. $95 more Maori titles
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