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Cover of Grey's Polynesian mythology and ancient traditional history of the New Zealand race
Finnin, Denis
American Museum of Natural History
New York, NY, United States
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- Title: Cover of Grey's Polynesian mythology and ancient traditional history of the New Zealand race
- Creator: Finnin, Denis
- Subject: Rare books, Oceania, Manners and customs, Religion, Ethnology -- Oceania, Cultural anthropology
- Specimen Location: American Museum of Natural History Library Rare Book Collection
- Rights: Information on rights available at the repository.
- Repository: American Museum of Natural History
- Publisher: American Museum of Natural History Research Library
- Note: Natural Histories: Extraordinary Rare Book Selections from the American Museum of Natural History Library
- Imprint: London, J. Murray, 1855.
- Identifier: b10451213
- Description of Publication: xiii, 333 p. plates. 21 cm.
- Department / Discipline: Anthropology
- Date of Publication: 1855
- Date: 2011
- Cultural Context: New Zealanders, Pacific Islanders
- Coverage: New Zealand
- Collection Title: Rare Book Collection
- Collection Name: Rare Book Collection
- Collection Description: The images of the Rare Book Collection highlight some of the art, illustrations, engravings, maps, and sketches from the over 14,000 rare materials housed at the Library. The Museum Library’s Rare Book Collection includes field diaries and scrapbooks, richly illustrated fragile and uniquely bound materials, limited and/or autographed editions; published and unpublished materials with special Museum association; materials of high monetary value; and rare books relevant to natural history, especially in those fields of interest at the Museum. This image collection commences with all of the artwork showcased in Natural Histories: Extraordinary Rare Book Selections from the American Museum of Natural History Library: Essays & Plates, a book edited by the Library’s Director, published in October, 2012.
- Call Number: GG-2
- Book Title: Polynesian mythology and ancient traditional history of the New Zealand race,;"as furnished by their priests and chiefs."
- Bibliographic Number: <a href="http://libcat1.amnh.org/record=b1045121" target="_blank">b10451213</a>
- Author: Grey, George, Sir, 1812-1898.
- Artist: Unknown
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