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Ex-library, General Assembly Library, New Zealand. Library label on front endpaper, with rubber stamp "Withdrawn from Parliamentary Library". A 20mm tear to blank margin of first leaf of issue #4. Rubber stamp on page 1 of issue #1 "General Assembly Library". ; Rare. 15 of 16 issues. Issues 1-13, 15-16 bound in one volume. Issue #14 is unrecorded. Lacking the final issue #17. Includes the supplement following #9. Issue #1 is 4 pages, issue #2 is 6 pages, and the remaining issues are all 8 pages. The supplement is 1 sheet printed on one side, i.e. 1, [1 (blank)] pages. 20th century cloth boards. Blue cloth with brown cloth spine and corners. Spine titled in gilt: "TE WAKA MAORI 1884". Page dimensions: 321 x 206mm. Text in Maori throughout. Text in double columns. Lacking the final issue, #17 (14 November 1884]. No issue 14 is known, with #13 appearing to be a combined issue with #14 (see BIM S27 - "The masthead, colophon and running titles p.7-8 [of no. 13] are dated 5 September, but the internal masthead (p. 2) and running titles p. 2-6 are dated 19 September, the notional publication date of no. 14." "'Te waka Maori o Aotearoa' reused the ornamental engraved masthead of 'Te waka Maori o Niu Tirani (S19) which had ceased in 1879. The proprietor was Paratene Ngaga (father of Apirana Ngata) [. . .] The paper contains substantial editorials, translations of legislation, reports of Native Land Court heareings, waiata, correspondence, obituaries, announcements and advertisements." - BIM S27. The fourth and final iteration of a Maori language newspaper with the name "Te Waka Maori, which began with "Te Waka Maori O Ahuriri (1863-1871) (BIM S16), followed by the government paper "Te Waka Maori O Niu Tirani" (1871-1877) (BIM S18), which was followed by the independent revival "Te Waka Maori O Niu Tirani" (1878-1879) (BIM 21). The woodcut headpeace shows a waka with 28 men, tree ferns, cabbage trees, a lake and in the background a volcano. BIM S27 records incomplete copies at all institutions listed (Auckland Public Library; Hocken Library, Dunedin; Parliamentary Library, Wellington; and Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington). [References: BIM (Books in Maori) S27; Williams 687 (Issue #17 not recorded in Williams) - "A final attempt made in Gisborne to revive the Waka Maori".]. Seller Inventory # 25334
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