Peter Adds

Peter Adds is Wellington-based academic, treaty negotiator and former head of Victoria University of Wellington's Te Kawa a Māui/School of Māori Studies. He is of Te Āti Awa descent. With a background in anthropology and archaeology, he has interests in Treaty of Waitangi settlements, and has campaigned for a less government-sided view of New Zealand history to be taught in schools.

A 2014 thesis by Dougal Austin, supervised by Adds and based on a survey of the collection of hei-tiki at Te Papa Tongarewa and early-contact examples in foreign collections, found that the mana of hei tiki is derived from the "agency of prolonged ancestral use" and stylistically was "highly developed [...] from the outset to conform to adze-shaped pieces of pounamu."

Selected works Contested Ground: Te Whenua I Tohea, the Taranaki Wars 1860–1881, chapter Te Muru me te Raupatu: The Aftermath (won the Nga Kupu Ora Maori Book Awards) A Brilliant Civilisation in The transit of Venus: how a rare astronomical alignment changed the world. Wellington, Awa Press, 2007. (shortlisted for the Montana Book Awards 2008) First Footprints: People, Land and Resources in Aotearoa. Auckland. Pearsons, 2006.