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Traditional Maori musical instruments are spiritual in nature given that these instruments were played during nearly all of the important occasions that a tribe participated in.
Timber -New Zealand native Matai. Ceremonial paddles were ornately carved. The more ornate the design the more significant the owner of the paddle. This paddles has two carved figures.
Fronting the apex of the Maihi [barge boards], the Koruru of a wharenui [carved house] usually represented a major ancestor of people linked to the living by unbroken lines of descent.
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