Peter Henry (Te Rangi Hiroa) Buck

Prof. Sir Peter Henry (Te Rangi Hiroa) Buck DSO, MD, Ch.B
Born	1880
Died	1951
Residence	Prof. of Anthropology, Hall of Graduate Studies, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. [1933] Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii [1935] and Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut [census]
Occupation	medical political anthropologist museum work
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow - life 1932 local correspondent appointed 21 Apr. 1936 (Honolulu) Hon. Fellow from 1938 left 1951 deceased elected_AI 1932.05.24 1938.01.25 societies American Anthropological Association Polynesian Society of New Zealand Royal Society of New Zealand American Folklore Society American Association for the Advancement of Science Sigma Xi

Notes

House Notes

1931.05.19 The following were nominated as Honorary Fellows: Dr Davidson Black, Dr W.E. Roth, Dr Bach [sic], Tompa, Karl Furst, S. Sergi, Count Begouen, Dr Sapir, Dr Wissler
1931.12.15 The following were nominated as Hon. Fellows: Dr Ferenc Tompa, Dr C. Wissler, Dr P.H. Buck, Dr Bosch Gimpera, Prof. C.M. Furst, Dr Felix F. Outes, Dr Speiser and Prof. Menghin.
1932.04.26 proposed by A.C. Haddon, seconded by T.A. Joyce
1936.04.21 The following were appointed Local Correspondents for vacant areas. Mr A.T. Culwick and Mr H.A. Fosbrooke for Tanganyika, Mr D.F.H. MacBride for Nigeria, Mr Guy Brunton for Egypt and Sudan, Dr A.P. Elkin for Australia, Prof. A. Matsamura and Dr Munro for Japan, Mr J. Eric Thompson for Central America, Prof. Buck for Honolulu, Mr H.D. Noone for East Indies, Dr W.R. Morse for Western China and Prof. Bernardo Eduard Petri for Russia.
1936 Rivers Memorial Medal
1952 nominated for HML
1952 HML Died before delivery of lecture
1951.12.04 death noted

Notes From Elsewhere

Te Rangi Hīroa, also known as Sir Peter Henry Buck KCMG DSO (ca. October 1877 – 1 December 1951), was a prominent member of the Ngāti Mutunga Māori iwi. He was a doctor, military leader, health administrator, politician, anthropologist and museum director

b. 15 Aug. 1880 Lecturer on ethnology at Yale 1932-4 and 1939

Publications

External Publications

Buck, Peter (1910), Medicine amongst the Maoris in ancient and modern times: a thesis for the degree of Doctor of Medicine (N.Z.) Buck, Peter (1911), Takiwa pooti o te Tai-Tokerau, Wellington, N.Z.: N.Z. Times Print Buck, Peter (1923), Maori plaited basketry and plaitwork. 1, Mats, baskets, and burden-carriers, Wellington, N.Z.: Government Printer Buck, Peter (1924), Maori plaited basketry and plaitwork. 2, Belts and bands, fire-fans and fly-flaps, sandals and sails, Wellington, N.Z.: Government Printer
Buck, Peter (1925), The coming of the Maori, Nelson, N.Z.: R. W. Stiles
Buck, Peter (1926), The evolution of Maori clothing (Memoirs of the Polynesian Society ; v. 7), New Plymouth, N.Z.: Printed by Thomas Avery, under the authority of the Board of Maori Ethnological Research
Buck, Peter (1926), The Maori craft of netting, Wellington, N.Z.: Government Printer
Buck, Peter (1927), The material culture of the Cook Islands (Aitutaki) [Memoirs of the Board of Maori Ethnological Research ; v. 1], New Plymouth, N.Z.: Printed by Thomas Avery, under the authority of the Board of Maori Ethnological Research
Buck, Peter (1929), The coming of the Maori (2nd ed.), Nelson, N.Z. ; New Plymouth N.Z.: Cawthron Institute ; Thomas Avery & Sons Buck, Peter (1930), Samoan material culture (Bernice P. Bishop Museum bulletin ; 75), Honolulu, HI.: Bernice P. Bishop Museum Buck, Peter (1932), Ethnology of Manihiki and Rakahanga (Bernice P. Bishop Museum bulletin ; 99), Honolulu, HI.: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, retrieved 2008-04-27
Buck, Peter (1932), Ethnology of Tongareva (Bernice P. Bishop Museum bulletin ; 92), Honolulu, HI.: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, retrieved 2008-04-27
Buck, Peter (n.d.), Ethnology of Mangareva (Bernice P. Bishop Museum bulletin ; 157), Honolulu, HI.: Bernice P. Bishop Museum Buck, Peter (1934), Mangaian society (Bernice P. Bishop Museum bulletin ; 122), Honolulu, HI.: Bernice P. Bishop Museum
Buck, Peter (1936), Regional diversity in the elaboration of sorcery in Polynesia (Yale University publications in anthropology ; no. 2), New Haven, CT.: Published for the Section of Anthropology, Dept. of the Social Sciences, Yale University by the Yale University Press Buck, Peter (1939), Anthropology and religion, New Haven, CT.: Yale University Press Buck, Peter (1940), "Native races need not die", Asia (New York) 40 (7): 379–382
Buck, Peter (1944), Arts and crafts of the Cook Islands (Bernice P. Bishop Museum bulletin ; 179), Honolulu, HI.: Bernice P. Bishop Museum
Buck, Peter (1945), An introduction to Polynesian anthropology (Bernice P. Bishop Museum bulletin ; 187.), Honolulu, HI.: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, retrieved 2008-04-27 The voice of Sir Apirana T. Ngata ; The voices of Sir Peter (Te Rangihiroa) Buck, Bishop Frederick Augustus Bennett (Bishop of Aotearoa), Te Puea Herangi [sound recording] (HMV PR-9) 10 inch / 78rpm, Wellington, N.Z.: His Master's Voice, 1949
Buck, Peter (1950), Material culture of Kapingamarangi (Bernice P. Bishop Museum bulletin ; 200), Honolulu, HI.: Bernice P. Bishop Museum
Buck, Peter (1950), The coming of the Maori (2nd ed.), Wellington, N.Z.: Māori Purposes Fund Board ; Whitcombe & Tombs
Buck, Peter (1952), Les migrations des Polynesians: les Vikings du soleil levant (The Vikings of the sunrise) [Bibliotheque scientifique], Paris, France: Payot
Buck, Peter (1953), Explorers of the Pacific: European and American discoveries in Polynesia (Bernice P. Bishop Museum special publication ; 43), Honolulu, HI.: Bernice P. Bishop Museum?, retrieved 2008-04-27
Buck, Peter (1954), The Vikings of the sunrise (New Zealand ed.), Christchurch, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs
Buck, Peter (1957), Arts and crafts of Hawaii (Bernice P. Bishop Museum special publication ; 45), Honolulu, HI.: Bernice P. Bishop Museum Press
Buck, Peter (1959), The Vikings of the Pacific, Chicago, IL.: University of Chicago Press Buck, Peter (1970), Anthropology and religion, Hamden, CT.: Archon Books
Buck, Peter (1976), The material culture of the Cook Islands (Aitutaki), New York, NY.: AMS Press
Buck, Peter (1993), Mangaia and the mission, Suva, Fiji: IPS, USP in association with Bernice P. Bishop Museum, ISBN 982-315-001-X Sorrenson, M.P.K. (ed.) (1986–1988), Na to hoa aroha = From your dear friend: the correspondence between Sir Apirana Ngata and Te Rangi Hīroa, 1925-50 (3 vol.), Auckland, N.Z.: Auckland University Press in association with the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust and the Māori Purposes Fund Board

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Membership correspondence: Buck, P.H.