We had to choose our motifs that we would use. Tracey Tawhiao uses fish and butterflies along with other patterns. We chose stars for Kingitanga and the Te Paaki o Matariki Niupepa that was produced at Maungakawa. We chose M for Maungakawa. We chose trees which kind of look like arrows. We chose tui for all the tui that are on Maungakawa.
Maungakawa Story
Hi. We are Room 19, a class of Year 7 students from Cambridge.
We are trying to make a map of stories to help us understand how important Maungakawa is to our local Ngati Haua.
We are trying to make a map of stories to help us understand how important Maungakawa is to our local Ngati Haua.
Our teacher told us that Tracey Tawhiao likes to use newspapers form different places in the world. We used newspapers from different times that we had found in our research but ones that had articles about Maungakawa in them.
Amy - Room 19
We drew around the words that we wanted to create our found poems
We had to choose a colour palette for our artwork. We found a painting where Tracey Tawhiao had used contrasting colours instead of the same colour palette. We each chose a colour.
Tina and George
We had to choose a colour palette - we looked at lots of different paintings by Tracey Tawhiao - she chose pastels a lot so we chose 6 different types of purple and white.
I loved making the artworks because I liked choosing the words that would make the message.
Whitney - Room 19
Kylie and Miriam create their Tracey Tawhaio inspired art work.
These are the newspapers we chose - we found them online. The old ones we found at Papers Past
I want to talk about “what it is like to be maori in a colonised country”
Tracey Tawhiao
Our teacher talked to us about Tracey Tawhiao and her paintings. We looked at lots and lots of her painting and made a list of the things we liked. We also tried to work out what was the same in every painting. Our teacher asked us to think about what Tracey Tawhiao was trying to say to the people that looked at her paintings.
We have been working hard to find out everything we could about Maungakawa. Our key words for searching were Ngati Haua, Tawhiao, Tamihana, Fencourt, Thornton, Rewehetiki, Cambridge, Sanitorium.
Adam - Room 19.
We had to sort all the research we had done in to three categories:
- The Iwi Story (the historical/cultural significance of the site.)
- The In Between Story (The site as it is now and events that contributed to this.)
- The Aspiration Story (aspirations for the site post Treaty Settlement.)
First we sorted the research. Then we justified why each piece was in each category and rearranged it if we needed to.
This is a very significant site for us. Through our tipuna, we have links to it that go back to the 14 hundreds.
Ngāti Hauā iwi member.
Maimai Aroha = Lament
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