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Best Elsdon 1902. Food products of Tuhoeland: being notes on the food-supplies of a non-agricultural tribe of the natives of New Zealand: together with some account of various customs, superstitions etc. pertaining to foods. . Transactions of the New Zealand Institute (35): 45-111

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Key reference on food. Notes on the diet of the Tūhoe and traditions pertaining to food. Sections on fernroot, orchids, tī, raupō, tawa, tutu, mamaku, mushrooms, hue (gourd). Also grubs, beetles, earthworms ; fishing (eels, kokopu, inanga) and net types; potatoes (varieties listed), greens; cooking of food (process and terminology); customs, sayings, rites associated with food; hakari (feasts).

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Food products of Tuhoeland: being notes on the food-supplies of a non-agricultural tribe of the natives of New Zealand: together with some account of various customs, superstitions etc. pertaining to foods.

1902
Best Elsdon
Transactions of the New Zealand Institute
35
45
111

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