Waiata aroha, by an unkown composer of Ngai Tahu

Item — crate: R043838644, Reel: 5000027055793

Identifier: AMPS 2022/48. Item McL 191

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

First lines begin: "Pū kapapa [?] kei te tahuna mate rawa i au na | Kāhu na te hore nei"

Dates

1962-12-24

Creator

From the Collection: McLean, Mervyn (1930-2022) (Person)

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Restrictions

Restrictions appearing in the collection were placed by the performers at time of recording. Usually the restriction limits access to members of particular iwi or hapu.

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Biographical / Historical

Dictated by the performer whose grandfather, Kāhu, is the subject of the song and who was stated by her to have died at the age of 110. He died when the singer was perhaps 14 or 15 years old and never wore Pākehā clothes. According to a later informant Kāhu died in 1887 at the age of 114. As the song concers the events of his youth it was probably composed in the last decade of the 18th century.