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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).
Promotional photographs of taonga puoro (Maori musical instruments), performers and lan...
Date: 1997-2004
From: Nunns, Richard, 1945-2021: Collection
By: Carlin, Jocelyn, 1955-2017; Edge, Michelle, active 2000; Page, Stuart, 1957-
Reference: PAColl-9112-7
Description: Collection of mainly colour photographs, taken from 1997 to 2004, of performances and other events, instruments (and items relating to instruments) and places in New Zealand, all of which have involved Richard Nunns. A few are duplicates of photographs in other boxes of this collection. Events include: Kauraka Kauraka playing a nose flute: a trio, comprising Richard Nunns, Mike Cooper and Elio Martuscheillo, playing in Rome in 2002; the opening of Te Papa, 1998; an image from `Taku Wana', an opera by Helen Fisher and Wi Kuki Kaa showing Mere Boynton singing the opening aria; the launch of `He Waiata Onamata - songs from the past' in 1998. Instruments shown are old and newly made (by Brian Flintoff, Clem Mellish and Huata Holmes). Includes woven items associated with taonga puoro. Also includes photographs of caves where taonga puoro have been played (Maungati and Waitomo), Elephant Rocks, and an island near Durville Island. Quantity: 45 digital print(s) Colour. 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 2 Papers - copies of letter and form.