Best Elsdon

Elsdon Best

His direct contributions to archaeology included studies of pa, shell middens and artefacts.

See Jeffrey Sissons article in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. DNZB

Craig, E W G, 1964, Man of the mist. a biography of Elsdon Best, A H and A W Reed, Wellington, is a biography.

Selected Bibliography

1912 The Stone Implements of the Maori. Dominion Museum Bulletin No.4. Wellington.

1918a Shell-middens of the Wellington District. New Zealand Journal of Science and Technology 1:84-90.

1918b Shell-middens of the Porirua District. New Zealand Journal of Science and Technology 1:212-217

1925 Maori Agriculture. Dominion Museum Bulletin No. 9, Wellington.

1927 The Pa Maori. Dominion Museum Bulletin No.6, Wellington.

1929 Fishing methods and devices of the Maori. Dominion Museum Bulletin No.12, Wellington.