Kōrero: Kurī – Polynesian dogs

Ētahi atu tūhononga, pae tukutuku hoki

• The man-eating dog of Ngamoko mountain

  From Māui Pōmare and James Cowan’s Legends of the Maori (originally published in 1930), this is an account of a monstrous hound known as Te Kurī Nui a Meko.

• Notes, chiefly historical, on the ancient dog of the New Zealanders

  This paper by the missionary and naturalist William Colenso is from the Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, volume 10 (1877).

• Te Kuri maori (the dog of New Zealand). A reply to the Rev. W. Colenso

  This article by Taylor White in the Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, volume 26 (1893) is a response to Colenso’s 1877 paper.

Ētahi whakaaro puaki, takenga

• Best, Elsdon. The forest lore of the Māori. Wellington: Te Papa Press, 2005 (originally published 1942).
• Buck, Peter. The coming of the Maori. Wellington: Maori Purposes Fund Board/Whitcombe & Tombs, 1949.
• Clark, G. ‘Kuri.’ In The handbook of New Zealand mammals, edited by Carolyn M. King, 256–260. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 2005.
• Reed, A. W. Reed book of Maori mythology. Revised by Ross Calman. Auckland: Reed, 2004.
• Tīkao, Teone Taare. Tikao talks: ka taoka o te ao kohatu. Auckland: Penguin, 1990 (originally published 1939).