This type of bugle was made from a soft inner blade of flax (korito); then another blade was wound round the wide end of the tube. The process was repeated until a tube about one metre long was constructed.
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Post Office Savings Bank (N.Z.): Maori musical instruments. MB 113 [ca 1979]
Date: 1979
From: New Zealand. Post Office Savings Bank: [Series of posters on Maori art and life. 1975-1985?].
Reference: Eph-D-MAORI-POSB-1979-01
Description: Poster in blue and yellow print on white, shows wooden trumpet (pukaea), bull roarer (purerehua), shell trumpet (putatara), flax bugle (tetere), gongs or drums (pahu), castanets, tree gongs, flutes (nguru, koauau, and pu torino). Dated from date of acquisition. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Screen print, 717 x 492 mm.