Resources related to Matariki include agriculture, kites, the moon, navigation, proverbs, seasons, and tides and fishing.

Agriculture / Ahuwhenua

• 1,000 years of gardening in New Zealand. Leach, H.M. K. (1984). Wgtn: Reed (635.0993 z LEA)
• The coming of the Māori. Buck, P. H. Sir. (1929). Nelson: Cawthron Institute, pp248 (993.01 z BUC)
• (1967) Koanga o te tau - planting time by Puwharariki, Te Ranga-a-te-anewa. Te Ao Hou Journal 60, pp 6-8.
• Kumara growing. Coleman, B. P. (1972). Wgtn: Govt. Printer (635.22 z COL)
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• Kumaras and kumara magic. Te Ao Hou Journal 41, pp 36-37.
• Kumara [videocassette]. (1994). Wgtn: TVNZ Archives (V635.22 z KUM)
• Best, E. (1930). Māori agriculture. Cultivated food plants of the Māori and native methods of agriculture. Journal of the Polynesian Society 39, pp 346.
• Best, E. (1931). Māori agriculture. Cultivated food plants of the Māori and native methods of agriculture. Journal of the Polynesian Society 40, pp 1.
• Māori agriculture : the cultivated food plants of the natives of New Zealand, with some account of native methods of agriculture, its ritual and origin myths. Best, E. (1966). Wgtn: Govt. Printer (630.8999442 z BES)
• Māori food and cookery. Fuller, D. (1978). Wgtn: Reed (641.5993 z FUL)
• Rongo and Haumia = kumara and fern.
  Gadd, B. (1984). Papatoetoe: Kahurangi Cooperative (JF GAD)

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Kites / Ngā Manu Tukutuku

• The coming of the Māori. Buck, P. H. Sir. (1929). Nelson: Cawthron Institute, pp248 (993.01 z BUC)
• Games and pastimes of the Māori : a account of various exercises, games, and pastimes of the natives of New Zealand. Best, E. (1976). Wgtn: Govt. Printer, pp123-144 (790.08999442 z BES)
• (1962, March) Kites were magic once. Te Ao Hou Journal 38, pp35-36.
• Ngā mahi rehia. Te Awa, M. (2001). Wgtn: Huia (J499.44286 z TEA)
• Hamiora, P. (1901). Te manu aute. Journal of the Polynesian Society 10, pp 191.
• Te manu tukutuku :a study of the Māori kite.
  Maysmor, B. (1990). Wgtn: Allen & Unwin (796.1509931 z MAY)

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Moon / Te Marama

• The astronomical knowledge of the Māori : genuine and empirical : including data concerning their systems of astrogeny, astrolatry, and natural astrology, with notes on certain other natural phenomena. Best, E. (1955). Wgtn: Govt Print (572.9931 z BES)
• The coming of the Māori. Buck, P. H. Sir. (1929). Nelson: Cawthron Institute, pp435 (993.01 z BUC)
• Cry-baby moon : a story. Mataira, K. (1992). Wgtn: Mallinson Rendel/Ahuru Press (J/X MAT)
• Hemana, Te Wikiriwhi. The days of the month according to the recitation of the ancestors. Journal of the Polynesian Society 20, pp 113.
• Taumaunu, T. (1962). Fishing by the moon. Journal of the Polynesian Society 40, pp 30-31.
• Māori Auckland. Simmons, D. R. (1987). Auckland: Bush Press, pp18 (993.2 z SIM)
• The Māori division of time. Best, E. (1959). Wgtn: Govt Print (529 z BES)
• (1945) Nights of the moon. Journal of the Polynesian Society 54,(3) pp 165-166.
• Williams, H.W. (1928). The nights of the moon. Journal of the Polynesian Society 37, pp 338.
• (1899) Te marama, the moon. Journal of the Polynesian Society 8, pp 100-104.

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Navigation / Whakatere

• Polynesian voyagers : The Māori as adeep-sea navigator, explorer, and colonizer. Best, E. (1975). Wgtn: Govt. Printer (993.01 z BES)
• Waka. Whakataka-Brightwell, M. (1994). Wgtn: Learning Media (Y623.82 z WHA)

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Proverbs / Whakataukī

• Maori proverbs. Brougham, A.E. and Reed, A.W. (1987). Auckland [N.Z.] : Reed Methuen (398.9 z BRO)
• Te kohikohinga whakatauki a Reed: The Reed book of Maori proverbs. Brougham, A.E. and Reed, A.W. (1999). Auckland [N.Z.] : Reed Books (398.9 z BRO)
• Ngā pēpeha a ngā Tīpuna. Mead, Moko and Grove, Neil. (2001, 2003). Wellington, N.Z. : Victoria University Press (398.999442 z MEA)

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Seasons / Ngā wā o te tau

• Celebrating the southern seasons : rituals for Aotearoa. Batten, J. (1995). Auck: Tandem Press (291.38 z BAT)
• The home of the winds. Bacon, R. L. (1986). Auck: Waiatarua Publishing (JF z BAC)
• Kei te heke te ua = out of the rain. Jackson, P. (2000). Wgtn: Ministry of Education (J499.44286 z JAC)
• The Māori division of time. Best, E. (1959). Wgtn: Govt Print (529 z BES)
• Seasons & weather. Ell, G. (1997). Auck: Waiatarua Publishing (J525.5 z ELL)

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Tides and fishing / Ngā tai me te hī ika

• Fishing methods and devices of the Māori. Best, (1977). Wgtn: E. E. C. Keating, Govt. Printer (639.208999442 z BES)
• Ancient tide-lore and tales of the sea, from the two ends of the world : also, some highly curious, ancient, and legendary, little-known, east coast Māori stories. Colenso, W. (1989). Napier: (398.362 COL)
• Māori Fishing : a resource book for teachers. Deed, C. (1990). Whakatane: Maori Publications (639.208999442 z DEE)
• Charles Devonshire. (1977). Origin of a maramataka. Journal of the Polynesian Society 86 (1), pp 81-83.

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