"... narrative tells of Ngai Tahu's migration from the Wellington area into the South Island. Making their way by sea and land as far as Rakiura (Stewart Island) and Fiordland, the people settled, fought and intermarried -- establishing their genealogical right to the land ... The history was recorded in the 1930s by journalist Hugh Carrington who drew on the knowledge of Oaro elder Hariata Beaton-Morel and earlier Ngai Tahu scholars. The Carrington text, from the Alexander Turnbull Library, has been framed and edited by Te Maire tau and Atholl Anderson. Other traditions and whakapapa complement the text." -- Jacket