Tikao Talks: Treasures from the Ancient World of the Maori. Told by Teone Tikao to Herries Beattie.

Tikao Talks: Treasures from the Ancient World of the Maori. Told by Teone Tikao to Herries Beattie.

Publisher: Penguin Books (NZ), 1990. Good softback, minor edge wear, pages heavily tanned at edges, name to ffep. 160 pages plus indexes.

Teone Taare Tikao, who died in 1927, was one of the most respected rangatira of the South Island. Trained as a boy in the ways of the tohunga, he was acknowledged to have a vast knowledge of Maori mythology, history and culture. In 1920 his great knowledge was tapped by the historian Herries Beattie.

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