MANUSCRIPT
Papers from envelope containing waiata Maori
- Date
- 1910-1922
- By
- Buck, Peter Henry (Sir), 1877?-1951
- Reference
- MS-Papers-11310-33
- Description
Contains research notes, typewritten and handwritten waiata and newspaper clippings. Includes `A Maori love-song': Whakapukupuke ai au-e! Te roimata i aku kamo...; and an article about `The death leap of Tikawe' with annotations. Also includes `Tangi song' chanted by Takarongi [Takarangi] Mete Kingi and others at the tangihanga ceremony over the late Premier, at Parliament House, Wellington, June 21st, 1906: Whakaronga [whakarongo?] e te rau, tenei te tupuna o te mate, ka iri kia au, i tipu i te Reinga... Another `Tangi song' sung by Wi Pere and other East Coast natives: Haere ra e Koro! Koutou ko matua - unuhia i te rito o te harakeke ka tu i te aroakapa... Also a `Ngai Tahu dirge' sung by Timoti Whiua and Tioti Ropitini [George Robinson] of Wairewa Little River, Canterbury: Pu ma uru, e riringi mai nei-i-e!...
Also includes a waiata tangi (mo Te Awaawa, rangatira o Ngati Whakaue mo tona matenga): Ka moe koa Taupiri [Taupori?] o te rewarewa, e tu tai ana ra te Kauika taramea... Also a waiata with translation entitled `Tongakohu's lament. The Maori fairy chief's farewell to Ngongotaha Mount'. Other typewritten and handwritten waiata and extracts. A typewritten chant `The sword chant of Thorstein Raudi' [possibly typed by B Stowell?]. Letter to Cowan by P Buck dated 20th Dec 1922, discusses Cowan having loan of Buck's France diaries and Gallipoli diary. Copy of article from the Akaroa Star about local mountain names and folklore, mentions H T Tikao [Hone Taare Tikao] as having been the source of the story.
Quantity: 1 folder(s).
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Part of
- Cowan, James, 1870-1943 : Papers / Series 2 Research papers
- Format
- 1 folder(s), Manuscripts
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