Nga Moteatea (The Songs) Part 1 (one) Scattered Pieces from Many Canoe Areas. A Selection of Annotated Tribal Songs of the Maori with English Translations.

Nga Moteatea (The Songs) Part 1 (one) Scattered Pieces from Many Canoe Areas. A Selection of Annotated Tribal Songs of the Maori with English Translations. by Sir Apirana Ngata.

Published for the Polynesian Society by Reed (A.H.& A.W.), 1974. VERY SCARCE.

Very good hardback in red decorative cloth. Minor compression & fading to spine; one corner is bumped; white mark to back cover; no inscriptions, binding firm; a little foxing to top edge.

327 pages.

A collection of annotated waiata made by distinguished Maori leader and scholar Apirana Ngata. Over a period of forty years Sir Apirana Ngata, distinguished leader and scholar, collected and recorded hundreds of songs and chants from the iwi of Aotearoa, which became the four volumes of Maori with translations and annotations by Ngata and Pei Te Hurinui Jones. This is the first volume of this national treasure, the largest and most comprehensive collection of Nga Moteatea waiata and a unique contribution to New Zealand poetry. It is a rich resource for continuing research and scholarship in many fields, offers prime texts in the teaching of Maori language, literature and tribal history and serves as inspiration for contemporary composition and performance.