Te Rangi Hiroa

(English name Peter Henry Buck). Born Aug. 15, 1880, in Urenui, New Zealand; died Dec. 1, 1951, in Honolulu, Hawaii. New Zealand scholar and public figure. A leader of the national Maori movement.

Te Rangi Hiroa joined the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, in Honolulu, in 1927 as a research worker in ethnology and became the museum’s director in 1936. He published several works dealing with the history, sociology, ethnography, and archaeology of Polynesia.