AV Maori Catalogue

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In the basic search you can enter names of people, place, iwi, hapu, marae and so on
Add details for date searching: like 1980

Search for a word   e.g. compulsory
Search for phrases   e.g. hapu, te tai tokerau, kaitiaki etc
Use word proximity (w) will retrieve "Aurere - Tino Rangatiratanga, Treaty of Waitangi"   e.g. Aurere w10 Treaty
Use the ampersand (&) to "and" search items (will find records with both those search items)   e.g.reo & tamaki
Use the forward slash (/) to "or" search items (will find records with any of the search items)   e.g. tupuna / tipuna
Search for dates (use the browse button to select)   e.g. 6-October-1845
Truncate words using asterisk (*) (will retrieve marama, whakamarama, whakamaramatia etc)   e.g. marama*