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FRAZ/16/71
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Letter from Raymond Firth to Sir James Frazer
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- 15 Mar. 1927 (Creation)
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2 items
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The London School of Economics and Political Science - Encloses the pages of an unidentified corrected typescript relating to the Maori calendar and its connection with seasonal occupations; is looking to the publication of the 'Fasti' for more on the correlation of the calendar with agriculture. Parts of the typescript relating to the division of the year into ten named months is marked in Frazer's red crayon.
Accompanied by the envelope, with a note in Frazer's hand, 'The Maori Calendar in relation to Agriculture (to be compared with Roman Year of Ten Months).