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Kōauau
A ''kōauau'' is a small flute, ductless and notchless, long, open at both ends and having from three to six fingerholes placed along the pipe. ''Kōauau'' resemble flutes the world over both in tone quality and in the range of sounds that can be produced by directing the breath across the sharp edge of the upper aperture. Māori people, Māori ''kōauau'' players were renowned for the power it gave them over the affections of women (notably illustrated by the story of Tūtānekai, who, by playing his ''kōauau'', convinced Hinemoa to swim to him across Lake Rotorua). ''Kōauau'' are made of wood or bone. Formerly the bone was of bird bone such as albatross or moa; some instruments were also of human bone and were associated with chiefly status and with the cultural practice of Utu (Māori concept), utu. External links Kōauau in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa End-blown flutes Māori musical instruments {{NewZealand-music-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flute
The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, flutes are edge-blown aerophones. A musician who plays the flute is called a flautist or flutist. Paleolithic flutes with hand-bored holes are the earliest known identifiable musical instruments. A number of flutes dating to about 53,000 to 45,000 years ago have been found in the Swabian Jura region of present-day Germany, indicating a developed musical tradition from the earliest period of modern human presence in Europe.. Citation on p. 248. * While the oldest flutes currently known were found in Europe, Asia also has a long history with the instrument. A playable bone flute discovered in China is dated to about 9,000 years ago. The Americas also had an ancient flute culture, with instrumen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Māori People
Māori () are the Indigenous peoples of Oceania, indigenous Polynesians, Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand. Māori originated with settlers from East Polynesia, who arrived in New Zealand in several waves of Māori migration canoes, canoe voyages between roughly 1320 and 1350. Over several centuries in isolation, these settlers developed Māori culture, a distinct culture, whose language, mythology, crafts, and performing arts evolved independently from those of other eastern Polynesian cultures. Some early Māori moved to the Chatham Islands, where their descendants became New Zealand's other indigenous Polynesian ethnic group, the Moriori. Early contact between Māori and Europeans, starting in the 18th century, ranged from beneficial trade to lethal violence; Māori actively adopted many technologies from the newcomers. With the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti o Waitangi in 1840, the two cultures coexisted for a generation. Rising ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tūtānekai
Tūtānekai was a Māori people, Māori rangatira (chief) of the iwi Ngāti Whakaue in the Te Arawa confederation of tribes. He was an illegitimate son of Tūwharetoa i te Aupōuri and is most famous for his romance with Hinemoa, which is referenced in the song ''Pōkarekare Ana''. Later on, he came into conflict with Ngāti Pikiao, driving them away from lake Rotorua and sacking their pā at Moura on Lake Tarawera. Still later, he formed an alliance with Ngāti Pikiao in order to get revenge on Tuhourangi at Tumoana for the accidental death of his son. Life Tūtānekai's mother was Rangiuru, the wife of Whakaue-kaipapa, the ancestor Ngāti Whakaue. The pair lived at Kaiweka pā on Mokoia island in Lake Rotorua. On a visit to the island, Tūwharetoa i te Aupōuri, the namesake of Ngāti Tūwharetoa, slept with Rangiuru, resulting in Tūtānekai, whom Whakauekaipapa chose to raise as one of his own children. Tūtānekai had three half-brothers (Whakaue-kaipapa's legitimate childre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rotorua
Rotorua () is a city in the Bay of Plenty region of New Zealand's North Island. It is sited on the southern shores of Lake Rotorua, from which it takes its name. It is the seat of the Rotorua Lakes District, a territorial authorities of New Zealand, territorial authority encompassing Rotorua and several other nearby towns. It has an estimated resident population of , making it the country's list of New Zealand urban areas by population, 13th largest urban area, and the Bay of Plenty's second-largest urban area behind Tauranga. Māori people, Māori first settled in Rotorua in the 14th century, and a thriving pā was established at Ohinemutu by the people who would become Ngāti Whakaue. The city became closely associated with conflict during the Musket Wars of the 1820s. Ohinemutu was invaded by a Ngāpuhi-led coalition in 1823, commanded by Hongi Hika and Pōmare I (Ngāpuhi), Pōmare I. In the 19th century early European settlers had an interest in developing Rotorua, due to i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albatross
Albatrosses, of the biological family Diomedeidae, are large seabirds related to the procellariids, storm petrels, and diving petrels in the order Procellariiformes (the tubenoses). They range widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific. They are absent from the North Atlantic, although fossil remains of short-tailed albatross show they lived there up to the Pleistocene, and occasional vagrants are found. Great albatrosses are among the largest of flying birds, with wingspans reaching up to and bodies over in length. The albatrosses are usually regarded as falling into four genera, but disagreement exists over the number of species. Albatrosses are highly efficient in the air, using dynamic soaring and slope soaring to cover great distances with little exertion. They feed on squid, fish, and krill by either scavenging, surface seizing, or diving. Albatrosses are colonial, nesting for the most part on remote oceanic islands, often with several species nesting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Utu (Māori Concept)
''Utu'' is a Māori concept of reciprocation or balance. To retain '' mana'', both friendly and unfriendly actions require an appropriate response; that is, ''utu'' covers both the reciprocation of kind deeds, and the seeking of revenge. ''Utu'' is one of the key principles of the constitutional tradition of Māori along with ''whanaungatanga'' (the centrality of relationships)'', mana'' and '' tapu/noa'' (the recognition of the spiritual dimension)''.'' Along with equivalent traditions in other Indigenous communities, it has also been cited as an influence in attempts to introduce restorative justice into the criminal justice systems both in New Zealand and elsewhere. ''Utu'' can also be used about monetary repayments, paying or repaying. Cultural references * ''Utu'', a 1983 New Zealand film loosely based on events from Te Kooti's War "Amazon's "one-click" patent reconsidered"- a modern example of the term's use within New Zealand society See also * Restorative justice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
