Kōrero: Popular music

Pūtātara

When Dutch explorer Abel Tasman sailed into Golden Bay on 18 December 1642, he and his crew were greeted by the call of what may have been a pūtātara (shell trumpet). They responded by sounding baroque trumpets. Pūtātara were made from native conch shells, and more rarely exotic triton shells, which occasionally washed up on New Zealand beaches. 

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Reference: ME003937

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Courtesy of Richard Nunns and Bob Bickerton

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Chris Bourke, 'Popular music - Origins of New Zealand popular music', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/music/42565/putatara (accessed 29 March 2024)

He kōrero nā Chris Bourke, i tāngia i te 22 Oct 2014