Naku, Simona
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Aitutaki
Series
Identifier: AMPS 2023/01. Series 1
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...
Dates:
Sep-Nov 1967
Copy of Simona Naku recordings made at various marae in Vaipae, Arutanga and Nikaupara, Aitutaki in February, 1969
File — Crate R043821582: [Barcode: R043821582], Reel: 5000027021186
Identifier: AMPS 2022/03. File 3
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Recordings made during a field trip to the Cook Islands from January to February, 1970.
Dates:
1969
Mervyn McLean traditional music of Aitutaki and Mangaia, Cook Islands recordings
Collection
Identifier: AMPS 2023/01
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...
Dates:
Sep-Nov 1967
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