About this item: The pattern which covers the nguru is made of a series of Koru shapes which depict the music making pleasing shapes in the silence. They are arranged in four design fields to represent the traditional saying ‘Nga Hau e Wha’, the Four Winds, a poetical way of referring to the people from all around the world, in this case to whom the music radiates.

About Taonga Puoro: In Maori Music traditions musical instruments are members of the families of the Gods. Tunes are named Rangi after the Sky Father to whom they ascend after being sounded and Rhythms  come from the heartbeats of Papa, the Earth Mother. Their children, Hine pu te Hue, Tane, and Tawhiri Matea, their Great uncle Tangaroa and a grandchild, Raukatauri, Goddess of flute music, are most of the ancestors of a wide range of musical instruments. Click here hear to learn the origin story of Maori flutes.

Material: Recycled Matai