Places
Places related to your search results. This map shows just part of our unpublished collections – there's more coming as we add location information to records. Learn how to use the map.
Taonga puoro (Maori musical instruments), instrument makers, performers and wananga (wo...
Date: [ca 1985-ca 2004]
From: Nunns, Richard, 1945-2021: Collection
Reference: PAColl-9112-2
Description: Photographs - many showing Richard Nunns - mainly from the early years (1990s) of the revival of interest in taonga puoro. Includes photographs of old instruments from unidentified museum collections and photographs of modern reproductions of instruments including: porutu, pukaea, pakuru, putorino, putatara, hue, nguru, ku, tokere, potaka, roria, koauau, karanga, porotiti and gemshorns. Shows instruments made from different materials: bones of animals - dog (kuri), chamois), birds (moa, toroa), men (koiwi tangata); teeth (whale); wood; argillite (pakohe); shell. Also shows kete for instruments, woven from kiekie and other plants. Also includes photographs from the significant hui held in 1991 at Hinerupe marae in Te Araroa where Hirini Melbourne drew together players and makers who would lead the revival of traditional music. Further includes photographs from a wananga at Motu-o-Tinirau in Lake Rotorua, and from a gathering on the rim of a crater of Tarawera. during a Haumanu collective wānanga at Rotorua in 2004. Quantity: 101 colour original photographic print(s). 18 b&w original photographic print(s).
Maori and other musical instruments, performers and events
Date: [ca1975-ca2004]
From: Nunns, Richard, 1945-2021: Collection
By: Alford, Rachel, active 2005; James, Brian, active 1983
Reference: PAColl-9112-5
Description: Photographs - mostly from the mid 1980s - of a range of instruments (old and new, Maori, Japanese, Chinese, from Pacific Islands and Celtic) being played at events in different parts of New Zealand, by New Zealand and visiting performers. Includes shakuhachi, guqin, a Rarotongan nose flute, a Celtic horn, taonga puoro including a koauau made from koiwi tangata (human bone) and a kete woven by Geneva Gray. Also includes images of performances curated by Allan Thomas in the auditorium of the National Library; copy of the cover for an album `Traditional music of the Maori' with Mrs Wineera of Porirua; the opening of visitor facilities in the Ruakuri Cave at Waitomo; an event in the crater of Mount Tarawera; a workshop at an Auckland teachers training college; expeditions in search of pounamu in the Arahura River valley; a tour by Urban Taniwha. Quantity: 100 colour original photographic print(s). 23 b&w original photographic print(s). 4 papers (letters and envelopes).