A Reading List

Te Ao Hou, November 1964, Page 47

A Reading List The Growth of Literature: Volume 2, Part 3, The Oral Literature of Polynesia. By H. M. and N. K. Chadwick. New York. 1940. Voices on the Wind (Translations of Polynesian myths and chants). By Katherine Luomala. Bishop Museum Press. 1955 (in print). Maui of a Thousand Tricks: his Oceanic and European Biographers. By Katherine Luomala. Bishop Museum Bulletin 198. 1949. Tuamotuan Legends (English and some Tuamotuan texts). Bishop Museum Bulletin 148. 1937. The Legends of Maui and Tahaki (English and Tuamotuan texts). Bishop Museum Bulletin 127. 1934. Kepelino's Traditions of Hawaii (English and Hawaiian texts). Selections from Fornander's Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-lore (Hawaiian and English texts). By S. H. Elbert (ed.). 1959 (in print). Ancient Tahiti (English and Tahitian texts). By Te Uira Henry. Bishop Museum Bulletin no. 48. 1948. Myths and Song from the South Pacific (English and Mangaian texts). By William Wyatt Gill. 1876. Nga Moteatea: he maramara rere no nga waka maha. (The songs: scattered pieces from many canoe areas). 2 volumes. Collected by A. T. Ngata and translated by A. T. Ngata and P. H. Jones (in print). Nga Mahi a Nga Tupuna (The deeds of the ancestors). By Sir George Grey. Polynesian Mythology by Sir George Grey (in print). Ancient History of the Maori by John White. A Treasury of Maori Folklore by A. W. Reed (in print). Selected Readings in Maori by Bruce Biggs, Pat Hohepa and S. M. Mead. (Obtainable from Secretary, Anthropology Department, University of Auckland.) 1962. He Kohikohinga Aronui by Bruce Biggs and S. M. Mead. (Obtainable from Secretary, Anthropology Department, University of Auckland.) 1964. The Lore of the Whare-Wananga by S. Percy Smith (2 Vols.). Te Wananga Volume 1, and Volume 2, no. 1. (This was a periodical published by the Board of Ethnological Research. The numbers mentioned above are obtainable from the Secretary, Polynesian Society, Box 5194, Wellington. They contain much of the material by Nepia Pohuhu on which ‘The Lore of the Whare Wananga’ was based.) Te Whare Kura. This Maori-language periodical is published tow or three times a year by the Education Department. It is available from all Government Printer shops. Professor Bruce Biggs, who is of Maori descent, teaches Maori studies in the Department of Anthropology, University of Auckland. This article is the revised text of a talk he gave some time ago as one of the ‘Winter Lectures’ at the University of Auckland. Professor Biggs is at present undertaking research at the East-West Centre, Hawaii.