Lecture 9
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TobyChadwickMusc 351 – 22/08/17
Guest lecturer – Rob Thorne
Richard Nunn was he lecturer and he suggested not to trust all that he was purporting as it came
from instinct.
He has a master’s thesis about the (re)creating the past. Most of it was from instinct.
Taonga Puroru – a broken tradition. The knowledge became separated from the people. He believes
nothing is lost, but hard to find – how to access the information
He had done heaps of academic study and when he finished, he realised that he would learn more
about the instrument by playing it.
“traditionally” we weren’t multi instrumental people
“ “ we didn’t travel teaching Taonga Puroru
The moari Goddess Hine Ruakautori the goddess of flute music.
HE has never been asked “is it ok for men to play flute (in a moari setting)”
The putorino is supposed to be a replication of the goddess living in a moth case as a female moth
(this is because she loved the flute so much). She laid eggs and was eaten by her babies and then the
babies left the middle of the cocoon and made the middle holes.
There is no provenance on how he has played the instrument i.e. from the middle or the bottom.
“action archaeology” - I can do this now, was it done back then?
The instrument Putangitangi – tangi meaning cry, sad, funeral and Pu meaning sounds
The maori name for the black backed gull is the same for a large venus (cockle) shell. Rob then
played a small venus shell and made the same sound as the gull.
A lot of the instruments of the Taonga Puroru are dubious as they have been somewhat made up on.
AMNH website – click on Oceania
Pakuru – sticks (instrument) played by hitting and using the cavity in the mouth.