Waiata tangi, by Rangi Nawenawe | Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Raukawa

Item — crate: R043838644, Reel: 5000027055791

Identifier: AMPS 2022/48. Item McL 128

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

First lines begin: "Ruriruri mai aku ū turi | Kei te huihui kei te moe"

Dates

1962-09-09 - 1962-09-10

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.

These items may sometimes be referred to for scholarly purposes but may not be copied or published in any form without the explicit release by the appropriate tribal authority.

Biographical / Historical

The singers learned the text only from Joe Takiwa | Tūwharetoa; they had learned the air earlier from old people. Rangi Nawenawe contracted leprosy and composed this song bewailing her inability to reach her own people. She was an ancestress of the singer.