Story: Traditional Māori songs – waiata tawhito

More links and websites

• Mōteatea

  A Māori Television series about the origins and meaning of ancient waiata.

• Mōteatea and the transmission of history

  A 1997 paper about mōteatea by Charles Te Ahukaramū Royal (PDF, 202 KB).

• Tāmata toiere

  A website about haka and waiata and their composers.

• Te Matatini Kapa Haka Aotearoa

  Te Matatini is the biennial national kapa haka championships.

• The origins and history of whare tapere

  This TVNZ Waka huia episode from 2011 focuses on whare tapere.

More suggestions and sources

• Grey, George. Ngā mahi a ngā tūpuna. Christchurch: Kiwi Publications, 1997 (first published 1928).
• Kāretu, Tīmoti. Haka: te tohu o te whenua rangatira: the dance of a noble people. Auckland: Reed, 1993.
• McLean, Mervyn, and Margaret Orbell. Traditional songs of the Māori. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2004.
• Mitcalfe, Barry. The singing word: Maori poetry. Wellington: Price Milburn for Victoria University Press, 1974.
• Ngata, Āpirana Turupa. Ngā mōteatea: he maramara rere nō ngā waka maha. 4 vols. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2004–7.