Season 9 · Episode 3
Preservation and Destruction: the story of Elsdon Best (Part 1)
February 12, 202637m 57s
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Show Notes
Described in his own time as "the white Tōhunga of Tuhoeland" and by some today as a "structural rascist" who "stole" knowledge, it's fair to say Elsdon Best is a controvesial character. In the first of a two part episode, Black Sheep traces the early life of this self-taught ethnologist.