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Kōrero: Māori musical instruments – taonga puoro

Te whakatangi puoro ki runga o Tarawera, i te tau 2004

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Playing puoro on Mt Tarawera, 2004

I te tau 2004 ka tū te wānanga a Haumanu ki te taiwhanga o Hei Tiki ki Rotorua, he mea whakahaere e Ngāwara Gordon. He rōpū mō ngā kaihanga me ngā kaiwhakatangi taonga puoro a Haumanu. I reira anō a John Skye, he kaiwhakatangi puoro Celtic nō te moutere o Skye ki Kotirana. I reira anō ngā kaiwhakatangi kōauau o Airani. I tangohia tēnei whakaahua i te tākiritanga o te ata ki runga o Tarawera. I konei ka whakatangihia ngā parāhe a Purser me ngā pūkāea, pūtātara hoki. He rā tēnei i whakatūria e Hirini Melbourne me tāna mahi tahi ki ngā iwi kia whakatangihia ngā taonga puoro ki ngā tūtanga whenua ingoa-nui. 

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Richard Nunns Collection

Reference: PAColl-9112-2-076

Courtesy of Richard Nunns

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.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Brian Flintoff, Māori musical instruments – taonga puoro – Decline and revival of Māori instruments, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/42174/te-whakatangi-puoro-ki-runga-o-tarawera-i-te-tau-2004 (accessed 4 June 2026).

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