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HATUPATU AND THE BIRDWOMAN - A MĀORI LEGEND

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Year
1963
Reference
F15702
Media type
Moving image

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Rights Information
Year
1963
Reference
F15702
Media type
Moving image

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Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
Short
Duration
0:06:24
Production company
Fred O’Neill Company
Taonga Māori Collection
Yes
Credits
Producer: Fred O'Neill

The Māori legend of Hatupatu, the son of a Māori chief, is told by the use of plasticine puppets. Hatupatu’s people lose their mauri and Hatupatu finds it in the lair of Kurangaituku, the Bird Woman’s lair.

000:13 ‘Many years ago -- there dwelt in the land of Aotea - roa a Maori boy named Hatupatu.
Ill fortune beset his tribe, for their mauri (talisman) which protected them from evil had been stolen.’

006:03 ‘So it is to this day Hatupatu’s Rock stands near Lake Taupo -- travellers gaze at those terrible claw marks and leave a sprig of manuka to bring good fortune.’