Winner of the Reference and Anthology category of the 2002 Montana NZ Book Awards
First published 2001 This edition 2023
Kia mau ki te kupu a tou matua. Hold fast to the words of your father.
Pēpeha are not just proverbs – they include charms, witticisms, figures of speech and boasts. They can be heard every day on the marae and in the oral literature handed down to us.
First published in 2001, Ngā Pēpeha a ngā Tīpuna is a collection of more than 2500 ‘sayings of the ancestors’, gathered by Neil Grove and Tā Hirini Moko Mead over a period of more than twenty years. Through this book, readers reach out to their tīpuna, just as their tīpuna reach out to them.
