ANDERSEN.— Maori Music. 689 
Maori Music. 
By JoHANNES C. ANDERSEN, F.N Z.Inst. 
[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 27th June, 1923 ; received by Editor, 
31st December, 1923 ; issued separately, 28th August, 1824.] 
Plates 69, 70. 
Since publication of the paper in volume 54 more details have come to 
hand regarding certain of the musical instruments of the Maori. 
"The accompanying illustration of the roria, or Maori jew’s-harp (fig. 1), 
is from a sketch sent by Mr. George Graham, of Auckland. The vibrating- 
strip, made from supplejack (kareao), was, he says, called arero (tongue): 
it gave like a spring, and stood considerable use. When it showed signs 
of losing its elasticity, or of cracking, it was replaced by a fresh piece. 
It gave rise to a pungent proverb: He arero kareao ka whati, engari te 
arero wahine kaore kia whati—haere tonu ana (A supplejack tongue will 
become cracked; not so the tongue of a female—it goes on for ever). 
Evidently even Maori gallantry suffered lapses—but truth will prevail. 
Mr. Graham says he last saw the roria in use at Kaipara about 1885. 
ІН. Hamilton, del. 
Fig. 1.—A roria, or Maori jews'-harp, as held. 
The same ‘correspondent says that in old days a crier (kai-karanga) 
called attention to the fact that an announcement was to be made on the 
marae, or village square, by a blast on a pumoana, or conch-horn (Plate 69, 
fig. 1). At the funeral obsequies of an old -Ngati-Paoa chief of high rank, 
Rawiri Puhata, the call was made by means of a glass bottle, first drained 
of its “ hard stuff." 
Hamilton (Maori Art, p. 391) notes particulars of a “ calabash trumpet " 
mentioned by.some authors, a specimen being in the British Museum. He 
believed it to be * almost peculiar” to the Taranaki coast. It was made 
from a small carefully-selected calabash (kahaka), in the side of which two 
or three holes were punctured. - It gave only a small variety of notes, and 
is said to have been used to summon people to meetings. Thomas Moser, 
