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The Aryan Maori / by Edward Tregear
Bib ID 2501852
Format BookBook
Author
Tregear, Edward, 1846-1931
 
Description Wellington : G. Didsbury, Govt. Printer, 1885 
107 p. [1] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm. 
Summary

Attempt to prove, by linguistic comparison, that the Maori people are of Aryan descent and, after 4,000 years of migration, speak the language of their Aryan forebears in India "in an almost inconceivable purity". Cf. Bagnall.

Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

In English with some Maori.

Cited In

Hocken p. 365.

Bagnall 5610.

Subjects Maori (New Zealand people)  |  Maori language.

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