Traditional lifeways of the Southern Māori : the Otago University Museum ethnological project, 1920 / James Herries Beattie ; edited by Atholl Anderson.

Previous ed.: 1994.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 607-610) and index.

Foreword: Tipene O'Regan -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Murihiku -- Canterbury -- Nelson -- Westland -- Appendix I: Edited remains from first draft of Murihiku volume -- Appendix 2: Glossary of names for flora and fauna -- References -- Index of names -- Index of place names.

"Journalist and researcher Herries Beattie worked with Southern Maori for almost fifty years and produced many books. With a strong sense that traditional knowledge needed to be recorded, in 1920 he interviewed people from Foveaux Strait to North Canterbury and from Nelson and Westland, with Otago Museum support. He then transcribed notebooks lent to him by his informants, visited the Museum with them, recording southern names for fauna and artefacts, travelled to traditional sites, and consulted the work of earlier researchers. Finally he worked his findings up into the systematic notes that eventually became MS 181 in the Hocken Library, a highly valued but increasingly fragile treasury of knowledge." -- Back cover.

Junior secondary, senior secondary National Library of New Zealand.