The Polynesian Society is a non-profit organisation based at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, dedicated to the scholarly study of the history, ethnography and mythology of Oceania. == History == The society was co-founded in 1892 by Percy Smith and Edward Tregear, largely in response to a conviction widely held at the time, that the Māori and other Polynesian peoples were a dying race.
The Polynesian Society is a non-profit organisation based at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, dedicated to the scholarly study of the history, ethnography and mythology of Oceania. == History == The society was co-founded in 1892 by Percy Smith and Edward Tregear, largely in response to a conviction widely held at the time, that the Māori and other Polynesian peoples were a dying race.
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