Tag: New Zealand
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We start our look at Māori horticulture talking about the challenges and ingenuity of Māori upon arriving in Aotearoa. Specifically, the climate in their new…
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We go back to our tā moko episodes and do a dramatic retelling of the story of Mataroa and Niwareka, the couple that brough moko…
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We talk to the head of Te Papa Tongarewa’s Repatriation Team all about the repatriation of Māori and Moriori human remains from overseas. We talk…
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This is the second episode of my interview with James Holt, continuing on our discussion of Māori music including Māori showbands, WW2 songs and kapa…
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Our first interview! We chat to James Holt, someone who knows a lot more about Māori music than I do! We discuss modern Māori music…
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We round out our discussion on the various taonga pūoro as we talk about the nguru, pūkāea and pūtōrino, among a couple of other interesting…
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This episode we look at the realm of Hineraukatauri, goddess of flutes. We primarily look at the kōauau, what it was, how it was made,…
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We continue looking at taonga pūoro with some more shells, this time from land snails, along with the realms of Hine Pū Te Hue, goddess…
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This episode we start our look at taonga pūoro, Māori musical instruments! Initially looking at the demesne’s of Tānemahuta and some of Tangaroa’s.

