Mōteatea

A Māori Television series about the origins and meaning of ancient waiata.

Mōteatea and the transmission of history

A 1997 paper about mōteatea by Charles Te Ahukaramū Royal (PDF, 202 KB).

Tāmata toiere

A website about haka and waiata and their composers.

Te Matatini Kapa Haka Aotearoa

Te Matatini is the biennial national kapa haka championships.

The origins and history of whare tapere

This TVNZ Waka huia episode from 2011 focuses on whare tapere.

Grey, George. Ngā mahi a ngā tūpuna. Christchurch: Kiwi Publications, 1997 (first published 1928).

Kāretu, Tīmoti. Haka: te tohu o te whenua rangatira: the dance of a noble people. Auckland: Reed, 1993.

McLean, Mervyn, and Margaret Orbell. Traditional songs of the Māori. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2004.

Mitcalfe, Barry. The singing word: Maori poetry. Wellington: Price Milburn for Victoria University Press, 1974.

Ngata, Āpirana Turupa. Ngā mōteatea: he maramara rere nō ngā waka maha. 4 vols. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2004–7.