As Her Majesty moves through the thousands of guests seated on the ceremonial steps to unveil a plaque inside the Opera House, Ma-wai-hakona members sing an action song on the dais men materialising out of the darkness! At these first rehearsals we were fascinated as each group went through its routine, and as the props appeared at the final rehearsal we learnt a great deal—the Aborigines' white ‘blobs’ were chopped up cockatoo breast-