A Visitor's Waiata Whaiāipo

Authors

  • Margaret Orbell

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/knznq.v4i1.731

Abstract

Since women in traditional Māori society usually took the initiative in love, they were the ones who composed most of the love songs. The words of hundreds of these waiata were written down in the second half of the nineteenth century, mostly by Māori men, and the resulting manuscripts and early publications are now in our libraries.

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Author Biography

Margaret Orbell

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Published

2001-03-08