Description: "With biographies of her husbands, James Russell and William Isaac Haberfield, and illustrated profiles of twenty generations of her family, including various rakatira and ariki of Kai Tuahuriri (Kati Rakiamoa) and Kati Ruahikihiki (Kai Taoka); interspersed with over eighty whakapapa charts, and appended with a proposed reconstruction of Polynesian history, an exposition of the historical traditions of Te Waipounamu, an account of the origin and migrations of the Kai Tahu, or Ngai Tahu, tribe, a sequential chronology, and listings of migratory waka, intertribal connections, and ancestral lands".

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: "With biographies of her husbands, James Russell and William Isaac Haberfield, and illustrated profiles of twenty generations of her family, including various rakatira and…

Description: The Ngai Tahu story is one of migration from the North Island of New Zealand to the north of the South Island, and the occupation of lands further south. The questions the author addresses are how, why and by whom the tribe's traditions were formed, and how they might be unravelled to understand Ngai Tahu's past.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: The Ngai Tahu story is one of migration from the North Island of New Zealand to the north of the South Island, and the occupation of lands further south. The questions the…

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE