Re: ocean sailing rafts (Re: Lapita??

From: Jacques Guy (jguy_at_alphalink.com.au)
Date: 09/18/04

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    Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 12:59:34 -0700
To: Carmen <carmenz30@hotmail.com>

    Carmen wrote:

    > I was at a library yesterday and having read some of the thread on the 'Song
    > Of Waitaha' I had a flick through it.
    > That was one of the first things I noticed about the book,
    > how old the photos look, I am thinking that the people in the pictures are
    > very likely not alive today and looking at the age of sme of the people, in
    > the aparently old photos some of them would have passed on quite some time
    > ago.
    > Yet the book is written as if the author gained the information directly
    > from the people that he references.

    Interesting...

    > I also noticed there are no references about which information has come from
    > which person in the photographs.
     
    > Even more interesting I did some websearches on the names and found that one
    > of the people in the photos, Te Maiharoa, Taare (Charlie) Rewiti, of Ngai Tahu,
    > died in 1919.

    I should think that settles it.

    > There are references to him on the NZDB database
    > and there is a book of his stories in the Chrisrchurch City Libraries :-
    > Te Maiharoa, Taare Rewiti, 1849?-1919. Folklore and fairy tales of the
    > Canterbury Maoris / told by Taare te Maiharoa to Maud Goodenough Hayter
    > (Mrs. T. Moses) ; edited by Herries Beattie. [New] ed. 2000.

    ...
     
    > The author has simply put his own slant on it by using some colourful and
    > imaginative language.

    Did he give his source, i.e. "Folklore and fairy tales..."?
    If not he is a plagiarist. Whichever way, he seems more and
    more of a fraud. At least... he should have made it clear
    that he got his stuff through a scrying glass and a ouija
    board.

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