Mokotupu, Tepaki

Scope and Contents Recording sessions at Nikaupara, Aitutaki were led by Tepaki Mokotupu, who introduced most of the items, and narrated legends with which the songs are associated. Verbatim translations of most of the legends were supplied after each recording session by Simona Naku in consultation with Tepaki. The accounts in English of Te Putanga o Te Toa (item 1/8) and the Story of Raeina and the battle of Vaovaoka (item 1/145), as related by Tepaki, were supplied in typescript by Tepaki but must have been...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Recording sessions at Nikaupara, Aitutaki were led by Tepaki Mokotupu, who introduced most of the items, and narrated legends with which the songs are associated. Verbatim translations of most of the legends were supplied after each recording session by Simona Naku in consultation with Tepaki. The accounts in English of Te Putanga o Te Toa (item 1/8) and the Story of Raeina and the battle of Vaovaoka (item 1/145), as related by Tepaki, were supplied in typescript by Tepaki but must have been...

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Recordings made during a field trip to the Cook Islands from January to February, 1970.

Scope and Contents Having researched Māori traditional musical forms extensively in Aotearoa New Zealand, Mervyn McLean secured funding from the American National Science Foundation to conduct a survey in the Cook Islands looking for similarities or insights considering the two nations’ linguistic similarities. This collection consists of the recordings made during the survey in the Cook Islands, predominantly at Aitutaki and Mangaia, from September to November 1967. More than 40 different song...

Scope and Contents Recording sessions at Nikaupara, Aitutaki were led by Tepaki Mokotupu, who introduced most of the items, and narrated legends with which the songs are associated. Verbatim translations of most of the legends were supplied after each recording session by Simona Naku in consultation with Tepaki. The accounts in English of Te Putanga o Te Toa (item 1/8) and the Story of Raeina and the battle of Vaovaoka (item 1/145), as related by Tepaki, were supplied in typescript by Tepaki but must have been...

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Recordings made during a field trip to the Cook Islands from January to February, 1970.

Abstract

First lines begin:

"Ko au katoa teia ko Are Tini te autara Nei au i te autara ia Ikaroa e Otaua."

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Recordings made during a field trip to the Cook Islands from January to February, 1970.

Abstract

First lines begin:

"Autara i a Tangaroa i te autara a to taito Te tuu nei tetai marae tei karangaia e ko te"

Abstract

First lines begin:

"Oki akaou taou ki te autara ia Arepure Atua, te marae tapu o Ru."