Te Ao Maori
Yesterday we had Whaea Toni, we were learning about the early Te Ao Maori and i am going to tell you all about it.
First I am going tell you what we learnt about early maori weapons. The first weapon we learnt about was a Patu. A patu is a green stone carved into a shape looked like a oval at the top and a vertical line going down at the bottom of it. They used it to hit people in the back of the head to kill them. It is as hard as a brick wall. The final weapon we learnt about was a taiaha. A taiaha is made from wood and it is also used to kill. You have to carve a taniwha at the top of the taiaha. Do not put the taniwhas head on the because as the beliefs you might get cursed. For some detail/decorations they would use feathers and paua shells. The feathers are used as a sign of respect and the paua shells are as the taniwhas eyes.
Secondly I am going to tell you what early maori people wore for clothes. The most clothing maori people wore was a korowai. It is also was know as a Kahu huruhuru A. Korowai is a cloak with lots of different bird feathers on it. The feathers are used to cover the whole cloak. The most popular feather they use are Tui feathers.. A Tui is a black bird with a orange beak.. Back then they used the sticky tree saps to glue on the feathers.
Lastly I am going to tell you about my weaving I did with Whaea Toni.. With Whaea Toni we learnt a new type of weaving named raranga. It is a paper weaving. What we did was draw a line a on a coloured piece of paper but not all the way to the edges. Then we folded the paper in half but we had to make sure we had the open half facing up. After that we cut straight or wiggly lines to the drawn line but we had to make sure the lines were even. Next we cut little stripes of white paper to weave with the coloured paper. What we had to do to weave was to go up and over with the white strips so the pattern would be orange and white repeatedly. Keep repeating it until you're done. That is how you make a raranga.
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