Manners and Customs of the New Zealanders: with Notes Corroborative of Their Habits, Usages, Etc., and Remarks to Intending Emigrants, with Numerous Cuts Drawn on Wood
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Also known as: Manners and Customs of the New Zealanders.
Mentioned in
- Kōtare 2008, Special Issue — Essays in New Zealand Literary Biography Series Three: ‘The Early Poets’
- Moko; or Maori Tattooing
- Robley: Te Ropere, 1840—1930
- The Maori - Volume II
- ‘A Curious Document’: Ta Moko as Evidence of Pre-European Textual Culture in New Zealand
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.jpg "The title page of J. S. Polack's Manners and Customs of the New Zealanders, published in 1838. This book, and others he wrote on New Zealand, stamped Polack as a versatile scholar and knowledgeable writer and artist")
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