Small brittle title page of a book from 1845 titled Domestic Scenes New Zealand printed in LONDON for the society for promoting Christian knowledge.
Page 24 A missionary to New Zealand depicts indigenous Māori community reacting to the stormy sea. The Māori are told it is not a spirit who makes the storms, as they assume, but God in heaven being the clouds. Page 25 is the missionaries further account of a Māori child being born and bathed in the sea before offering their colonising narrative on the savage Māori preferring boys and mothers sometimes putting their girl babies to death.
Took a trip to the archives today… 😳 #academicsky #leisurestudies #criticalstudies
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