Moriori : origins, lifestyles and language / Rhys Richards.
"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 furthe...
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Wellington, New Zealand :
Paremata Press,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Moriori footsteps: a tour around the Chatham Islands
- A tentative population distribution map of the Morioris of Chatham Island, circa 1790
- From eastern polynesians to Tch Hiti to Moriori
- "Hatitimatangi": the unique Moriori wooden figure
- Te Ropiha Areatara, a Moriori survivor interviewed in 1902
- Moriori artifacts globally: what the collectors chose to collect
- Shand's 'missing Moriori manuscript' recovered, though now partly in Maori
- Moriori language: word cognates with Maori, Easter Island and Old Rurutu vocabularies.