Peter Henry Buck, 1877?–1951
Māori scholar Peter Buck thought that Māori originated in the Middle East and lived for some time in India. He also accepted the Great Fleet theory but did not believe that there were any people in New Zealand prior to the arrival of Māori.
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Charles Frederick Goldie, 1870–1947
Charles Goldie painted many Māori portraits, the titles of which suggested he believed them to be a dying race. In 1898 he and the artist Louis John Steele together produced ‘The arrival of the Maoris in New Zealand’, perhaps New Zealand’s most famous historical painting.
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Johann Franz Julius von Haast, 1822–1887
Best known as a geologist, Julius Haast had wide-ranging scholarly interests, including palaeontology, zoology, botany, philosophy and ethnology. He supervised research on early Māori settlement sites and published important ethnological papers.
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