Takitimu : a History of the Ngati Kahungunu People by J. H. Mitchell (Tiaki Hikawera Mitira).

Takitimu A History of Ngati Kahungunu By J. H. Mitchell.

Publisher: A.H & A.W. Reed, 1972. 265 pages plus Genealogical Tables; b/w photos.

A good copy in a faded, chipped and worn dust jacket with some loss to rear and tears to edges. Previous owner's name on front end-paper. Boards are faded at edges, marked, with some rubbing and compression. Pages are very good with minor foxing to edges.

Maori tribal history of the Ngati Kahungunu people. "Several centuries ago the sacred canoe Takitimu carried the ancestors of the Ngati Kahungunu on their great migration from the Pacific homeland, Hawaiki, to Aotearoa [. . .] The story is in four main parts: the discovery and peopling of the land by the Maori, leading to the departure of the Takitimu canoe and the other canoes of the great migration some six centuries ago, with a record of their landfalls; settlement of the Ngati Kahungunu tribe; the history of certain leaders of the Wairoa people in more recent times, and the facts concerning the building of the Takitimu House; appendixes relating to important charms, proverbial sayings, interpretation of dreams and signs, and the almanac, which were in common use by the people." - from the blurb on the dust-jacket of this 1972 reprint. [Reference: Bagnall M1805 - Tribal history of Ngati-Kahungunu with short biographies of Carroll, Pomare, and Rev. Tamihana Huata."].

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