Search Results: the maori tohunga and his spirit by andersen johannes

New Plymouth, NZ: Thomas Avery & Sons, 1948. Hardback small, no jacket (missing, remnants), good plus condition, green cloth cover (spine faded), colour drawings endpapers, few black & white drawings, front hinge little split (all pages firm, scuffed patch), minor edgewear. 135 pp. Johannes Andersen, a New Zealand anthropologist, explains the spiritual world of Maoris, the indigenous New Zealanders. Chapters: The Maori Tohunga; Fire-walking; Taniwha and fire-drake; The Wairua of Anatohia Bay; The Wynyard Ghost Story; A Maori Seance; Dream and Tapu; The Wairua during Trance. (Front cover and front flap of the jacket loosely inserted.).

Thomas Avery & Sons, Ltd, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Fine. 0x0x0. Color scene on end papers. Vignettes in text. Accounts of and oral traditions about the powers of clairvoyance, healing and divination by the Polynesian priests/doctors. 135pp. Index. 1st edition.