(Re)constructing the kōauau : traditional and modern methods in the making of kōauau rākau : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Social Anthropology at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

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(Re)constructing the kōauau : traditional and modern methods in the making of kōauau rākau : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Social Anthropology at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

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Until recently written work on the koauau has remained hidden within ethnographic accounts and anthropological analyses of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Descriptions regarding the traditional construction methods of the wooden koauau, a traditional, short, open-­-ended, tube flute played using the oblique embouchure, are often brief and second-­-hand, usually describing the object as it is physically rather than the process by which it was made. As yet, very little has been done...

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Thesis

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Masters

Date created

2012

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Thorne, Robert L

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https://hdl.handle.net/10179/4393

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Kōauau / Māori / Music / Musical instruments / Design and construction / New Zealand

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