Teuira Henry

Teuira Henry
Born	24/(1847-01-27)27 January 1847 Tahiti, Kingdom of Tahiti
Died	23 January 1915(1915-01-23) (aged 67) Paea, Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia
Occupation(s)	scholar, ethnologist, folklorist, linguist, historian and educator
Known for	Writing about the culture and history of Tahiti

Teuira Henry (24/27 January 1847 – 23 January 1915) was a British Tahitian scholar, ethnologist, folklorist, linguist, historian and educator.^[1] She worked to reconstruct a lost manuscript on the history of Tahiti written by her grandfather, English missionary John Muggridge Orsmond, by using his original notes. Most of her writings were published posthumously by the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum as the book Ancient Tahiti.^[2]