Elsdon Best (30 June 1856 – 9 September 1931) was an ethnographer who made important contributions to the study of the Māori of New Zealand. Elsdon Best...

Marquesas Islands. Scholars link labial elongation with genital tattooing. Elsdon Best wrote about the Maori (published in 1924, but apparently referring to...

daughter of Elsdon Walter Grant Craig and Zeta Harriet Craig (née Brown). Her father is a Scottish-New Zealander, and the nephew of Elsdon Best, and her...

later replaced by the Polynesian peoples. The writing of Percy Smith and Elsdon Best from the late 19th century also theorised about pre-Māori settlement...

Thomas Elsdon Ashford, British recipient of the Victoria Cross Elsdon Best, New Zealand ethnographer Janet Elsdon Mackey, New Zealand politician Elsdon Storey...

son of Ranginui and Papatūānuku, according to the tribes of the Arawa. Elsdon Best noted that Haumia-tiketike was not recognised as a son of Ranginui and...

Archived from the original on 26 February 2021. Retrieved 4 February 2021. Elsdon Best (1924). "The Polynesian method of generating fire With some Account of...

bishops H. W. and W. L. Williams; James Pope, Edward Tregear, Percy Smith, Elsdon Best, William Skinner, Sir Āpirana Ngata, Harry Skinner, J. M. McEwen, Professor...

Best, Elsdon (1924). The Maori – Volume 1. Harry H. Tombs, Wellington. p. 66. "Journal of the Polynesian Society: The Legend Of Whiro, By Elsdon Best...

as a place of peace and light. As articulated by Māori ethnographer Elsdon Best: It is a place where darkness is unknown. "This is the reason why, of...

Fine Arts. Madeline Best was born to Hannah and William Best in Tawa on 4 August 1854, and was the younger sister to Elsdon Best. She moved with her family...

Elsdon Best and Stephenson Percy Smith of the Polynesian Society, who did much to popularise the use of Aotearoa in Edwardian school books, pictured in...

victoria.ac.nz. Victorian University of Wellington. Retrieved 23 May 2019. Elsdon, Best (1924). Title: THE MAORI in 2 Volumes. Vol. 1. Wellington New Zealand:...

from the original (PDF) on 2 January 2023. Retrieved 2 January 2023. Elsdon Best (1925). "Canoes of Fiji". The Maori Canoe. Wellington: A. R. Shearer...

of Hawaii Press. p. 26. ISBN 9780824874643. Retrieved 30 March 2024. [Elsdon] Best focuses on the use of knots (or quipus - a word he says originates from...

German computer scientist Eleanor Best (1875–1958), British artist Elsdon Best (1856–1931), New Zealand ethnographer Eva Best (1851–1925), American story writer...

Elsdon is a village and civil parish in the English county of Northumberland about 10 miles (16 km) to the southwest of Rothbury. The name is derived from...

Society of New Zealand Leonard Cockayne (1912) Thomas Easterfield (1913) Elsdon Best (1914) Patrick Marshall (1915) Ernest Rutherford (1916) Charles Chilton...

in the 1919–1923 Dominion Museum ethnological expeditions alongside Elsdon Best, James McDonald, Johannes Carl Andersen and Āpirana Ngata. Buck gained...

Diagram of Maungawhau's scoria cones and terracing by Elsdon Best (1927)...

Wellington, New Zealand. In his 1923 work Miramar Island and its History, Elsdon Best recounted Māori stories handed down through generations about early settlement...

at Owenga on Chatham Island. Based on the writing of Percy Smith and Elsdon Best from the late 19th century, theories grew up that the Māori had displaced...

Āpirana Ngata and Te Rangihīroa, and undertaken between 1919 and 1923 with Elsdon Best, James McDonald and Johannes Andersen, to study Māori culture. The idea...

understanding of "God" much like the Christian God would be propagated by Elsdon Best in his Maori Religion and Mythology. The Io tradition was initially rejected...

following, grouped by council ward: Rangituhi / Colonial Knob Elsdon – named after writer Elsdon Best Kenepuru – industrial area south-west of the centre, adjoining...

Midgley 2007, p. 174. Midgley 2007, p. App. IX. Stafford 1967, p. 410. Best, Elsdon (1925). Maori Agriculture. Wellington: A. R. Shearer. p. 210. Ell, Gordon...

springs". There is no mention of kanae in the Māori text (Grey 1971). Elsdon Best, Maori Religion and Mythology, Part 2 (Dominion Museum Bulletin No.11...

Elsdon is a suburb of the New Zealand city of Porirua located immediately to the west to of the city's CBD. The area was named after Elsdon Best, a historian...

translated as mata riki ("little eyes"), a mistake originating in the work of Elsdon Best and continued by others. The word matariki or similar, referring to the...

the gods. The social mores and divine origins associated with tapu led Elsdon Best to detect the evolution of "a somewhat theocratic form of government"...