Echoes from Hawaiki
‘Echoes from Hawaiki’ shows that “the voices of taonga pūoro echo the even more ancient musical traditions of northerly islands, and carry faint memories and distant songs of farewell.”
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Being present to the past
“Once arrogantly dismissed as journeys of luck — the aimless drifting of incompetent mariners — these voyages are now rightly adulated as ‘among the greatest acts of voyage and discovery in world history.’” — Kennedy Warne on ‘Polynesia:900–1600’ by Madi Williams.
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