{"id":"TYLER2019-001","label":"Lamplit pūrerehua at Maungapōhatu","people_or_site":"Ngāi Tūhoe, Maungapōhatu; Hirini Melbourne","country_current":"New Zealand","historic_region":"Maungapōhatu, Te Urewera, North Island","macroregion":"Oceania / New Zealand","local_name":"pūrerehua","source_term":"pūrerehua","source_language":"English","object_description":"A pūrerehua spun on the end of its cord; one of the taonga pūoro Hirini Melbourne brought to Maungapōhatu.","function_summary":"Played by the Tūhoe composer Hirini Melbourne, with other taonga pūoro, inside the wharenui Tāne-nui-a-Rangi late into the night of 10 November 1990.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"tyler_urewera_triptych_mccahon100","source_type":"published_account","source_url":"https://mccahonhouse.org.nz/100/linda-tyler/","page_or_plate":"paragraph beginning \"We made a second trip\"","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Maungapōhatu settlement and marae (Wikipedia coordinate, -38.5706, 177.0953), where the wharenui Tāne-nui-a-Rangi stands.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"On the night of 10 November 1990 the Tūhoe composer Hirini Melbourne played the old instruments inside Tāne-nui-a-Rangi, the meeting house at Maungapōhatu, late into the night by a kerosene lamp and a candle. Maungapōhatu lies at the foot of the mountain sacred to Tūhoe; the prophet Rua Kēnana built his New Jerusalem there in 1907, and an armed police expedition came there to arrest him in 1916. Melbourne had come in with the museum party preparing an exhibition on Rua, and Linda Tyler, who was working on it, never forgot \"the eerie sound of the pūrerehua as it spun on the end of its cord.\" Outside, the museum photographer left his camera open from half past ten until three in the morning, and the stars wheeled over the house.","pull_quote":"I remember the eerie sound of the pūrerehua as it spun on the end of its cord.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Linda Tyler, “Urewera Triptych,” McCahon 100 (McCahon House)","term_gloss":"pūrerehua: Māori, 'moth', for the sound of its wings.","cls":"sacred","class_label":"Sacred / spirit","color":"#8A5A2B","is_candidate":false,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Linda Tyler, “Urewera Triptych,” McCahon 100 (McCahon House)","url":"https://mccahonhouse.org.nz/100/linda-tyler/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260713070813/https://mccahonhouse.org.nz/100/linda-tyler/"}],"source_citations":"Linda Tyler, “Urewera Triptych,” McCahon 100 (McCahon House)","source_display":"Linda Tyler, “Urewera Triptych,” McCahon 100 (McCahon House)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A pūrerehua spun on the end of its cord; one of the taonga pūoro Hirini Melbourne brought to Maungapōhatu.","function_display":"Played by the Tūhoe composer Hirini Melbourne, with other taonga pūoro, inside the wharenui Tāne-nui-a-Rangi late into the night of 10 November 1990.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"hoe","display_name":"Lamplit pūrerehua at Maungapōhatu","image":{"full":"assets/objects/POLY2026-001_prm_1901-64-7_maori.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/POLY2026-001_prm_1901-64-7_maori_thumb.jpg","credit":"Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, accession 1901.64.7","license":"PRM Collections Online terms (noncommercial educational/community use with credit)","source_page":"https://prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39777","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A Māori pūrerehua with fibre cord, held at the Pitt Rivers Museum.","pool_id":"auto-POLY2026-001_prm_1901-64-7_maori"},"slug":"tyler2019-001-ngai-tuhoe-maungapohatu-hirini-melbourne"}