For much of the first half of the 20th century it was believed that a pre-Māori people called Moriori inhabited New Zealand. Today Moriori are regarded as descendants, like Māori, of the original Polynesian settlers who arrived in about the 13th century. The scholar Edward Tregear published this book, The Maori race, in 1904. He kept an open mind on the possibility that there were people in New Zealand prior to Māori. He also argued that the Moriori of the Chatham Islands were Polynesians who had some connection with the South Island.
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Edward Tregear, The Maori race. Wanganui: A. D. Willis, 1904.
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