News at Eleven: 'The singing will never be done:'

I hear the karanga: in New Zealand, women lead a song of welcome to the dead when the bodies of the fallen are brought home, preparing a sound gate through which the warriors pass into the marae, the communal sacred home that houses the umbilical cords of the tribe.

from Arabesques: Re-Reading Siegfried Sassoon: Everybody Sang

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