Elsdon Best (30 June 1856 – 9 September 1931) was an ethnographer who made important contributions to the study of the Māori of New Zealand. Elsdon Best...

Marquesas Islands. Scholars link labial elongation with genital tattooing. Elsdon Best wrote about the Maori (published in 1924, but apparently referring to...

Thomas Elsdon Ashford, British recipient of the Victoria Cross Elsdon Best, New Zealand ethnographer Janet Elsdon Mackey, New Zealand politician Elsdon Storey...

later replaced by the Polynesian peoples. The writing of Percy Smith and Elsdon Best from the late 19th century also theorised about pre-Māori settlement...

son of Ranginui and Papatūānuku, according to the tribes of the Arawa. Elsdon Best noted that Haumia-tiketike was not recognised as a son of Ranginui and...

daughter of Elsdon Walter Grant Craig and Zeta Harriet Craig (née Brown). Her father is a Scottish-New Zealander, and the nephew of Elsdon Best, and her...

bishops H. W. and W. L. Williams; James Pope, Edward Tregear, Percy Smith, Elsdon Best, William Skinner, Sir Āpirana Ngata, Harry Skinner, J. M. McEwen, Professor...

Archived from the original on 26 February 2021. Retrieved 4 February 2021. Elsdon Best (1924). "The Polynesian method of generating fire With some Account of...

Best, Elsdon (1924). The Maori – Volume 1. Harry H. Tombs, Wellington. p. 66. "Journal of the Polynesian Society: The Legend Of Whiro, By Elsdon Best...

Fine Arts. Madeline Best was born to Hannah and William Best in Tawa on 4 August 1854, and was the younger sister to Elsdon Best. She moved with her family...