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unusual facts about raupo


Raupo

Raupo Press a small press in New Zealand previously known as Reed Publishing and now part of the Penguin Group.


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Kapa haka

Formerly the balls were made of raupo and the cords of flax but today they tend to be made of plastic shopping-bag material and yarn.

Māori music

Some of the smaller wind instruments were also sung into, and the sound of the poi (raupo ball swung on the end of a flax cord) provided a rhythmic accompaniment to waiata poi.

Marianne Williams

The CMS had an established mission at Kerikeri where they stayed while Henry and other CMS members and built a store of plank and timber and a raupo hut on Paihia beach.


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