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246 pages :

colour illustrations.
Contents include: Introduction: Weaving new strands in the whāriki of knowledge -- Taonga pūoro names and whakapapa -- The iwitanga and rohe differences of taonga pūoro -- Discovering new voices -- Echoes of the ancestors.
Summary: Jennifer Cattermole traces the origins and development of taonga pūoro, the stories they carry and how they connect present-day iwi with ancestral knowledge and traditions. She shows how traditional Māori and Moriori musical instruments have developed in response to available materials and evolving cultural needs, from their ancestral origins through the suppression of their use in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Aotearoa New Zealand, to their revival in the present day.