Elsdon Best

As with Volume One, Elsdon Best compiled the material for this volume of Tuhoe: The Children of the Mist as he travelled through the Urewera, holding countless first-hand sessions with kaumatua, principally Paitini Wi Tapeka of Ruatahuna and Tutakangahau of Maungapohatu. Volume Two contains the detailed whakapapa (genealogies) and a fold-out map of this rugged corner of Te Ika-a-Maui (the...

Ethnologist Elsdon Best spent many years documenting the culture, beliefs, customs and whakapapa of the Ngai Tuhoe people—whom he described as 'the children of the mist'. This monumental two-volume work comes back into print with the guidance of Dr Rapata Wiri (Ngai Tuhoe, Ngati Ruapani). This volume contains Best's writings. Now in its fifth edition, Tuhoe ranks as one of...