waiata whaiaaipo

song

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Maori literature

  • The Bone People
    In New Zealand literature: Maori narrative: the oral tradition

    …of place or kin), and waiata whaiaaipo (songs of courtship or praise of the beloved). In addition, there are pao (gossip songs), poi (songs accompanying a dance performed with balls attached to flax strings, swung rhythmically), oriori (songs composed for young children of chiefly or warrior descent, to help them…

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