About this item: The Purerehua is like similar instruments found in many cultures and its common stature as a child's plaything belies its traditional status. Its urgent chant was used for spiritual purposes and some were famed as rain callers, with the players own life force deemed to be traveling along the cord to create the sound and disperse their thoughts to the four winds. Purerehua speak with the voices of the Winds and the Spirits and so create special feelings.

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.

Material: Recycled Matai