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Kōrero: Māori musical instruments – taonga puoro

Te whakatangi i te pūmotomoto, i te tau 2000

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He taonga puoro onge te pūmotomoto, ka whakatangihia ki ngā tamariki kei roto tonu i te kōpū. Ko te tikanga he whakatō i ngā kōrero me ngā mōteatea a te iwi ki roto ki te hinengaro o te tamaiti. Nō ngā tau tata ki mua i kitea noatia iho tēnei taonga i roto i ngā pukapuka. Nō muri ka ako a Richard Nunns mā me ngā ihumanea ki te hanga me te whakatangi anō i te pūmotomoto. I roto i tēnei whakaahua ka whakatangi a Nunns i te pūmotomoto a Brian Flintoff ki te tamaiti kei roto tonu i te kōpū o tōna whaea, a Deborah Wai Kapohe.

Ko Alyssa Beazley te ingoa o te kōtiro nei. 

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Richard Nunns Collection

Reference: PAColl-9112-1-103

by Jamie Bull

Courtesy of Richard Nunns and Bob Bickerton

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

Ngā whakaahua me ngā rauemi katoa o tēnei kōrero

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Brian Flintoff, Māori musical instruments – taonga puoro – Melodic instruments – the family of Rangi, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/music/42162/te-whakatangi-i-te-pumotomoto-i-te-tau-2000 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Brian Flintoff, i tāngia i te 9 July 2013.