Maungakawa is important to Ngāti Hauā for spiritual cultural and historical reasons. We wanted to understand the reasons for people visiting Maungakawa today.
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.
When we did our artwork we had to find interesting words in the articles we were using. I found Chiefs which I thought was awesome cause it was like a play on words. Tawhiao was a chief from the iwi story and the Chiefs are our rugby team from this area.
Rangimarie
Our teacher showed us some close up images of Tracey Tawhiao’s ‘Outsiders on the Inside’ painting so we could understand what she meant by palette, found words and motifs.
The artwork was cool. We had to keep layering the motifs. We chose a star (for the Kingitanga), a Tui, a T (for Tui, Tawhiao and Treaty) and triangle to represent Maungakawa.
Sophie
When we were categorising our research we had to say why we wanted each bit to go in a certain category. That way the class understood the thinking and could say if they agreed or not. I said I thought that the reserve signs could go under both in between and also aspiration. I thought this would be good because people want to preserve it.
Holly
Our teacher said we were going to sort all our research in to categories. We had to try and think about these as we went along because we would have to justify our thoughts.
Tom
A series of Rodney Hamel’s paintings of Maungakawa Hill
We did a brainstorm to record all the different things we know about Maungakawa Reserve.
Everytime we found something about Maungakawa we had to decide if it was part of the iwi story, the in between story or the aspiration story. But sometimes we thought it could be part of more than one of these.
Madi
We actually decided that we could include a really wide range of information. Ollie found a video that showed someone cycling up Maungakawa. We thought this was a good piece of research because it shows one thing that people like to do on Maungakawa today.
Mark
Our teacher gave us a pretty big challenge. She said that we should try and find as many different types of information as possible. Examples of things we might find are; images, videos, maps, quotes, old newspaper articles and even letters.
Benji
View of the main building at Te Waikato Sanatorium at Maungakawa. The building was originally owned by the Thornton family, with half-timbering in the upper storey. Photographed by Price Photo Co. William Archer Price was operating as Price Photo Co circa 1910-1930.
When we had chosen Maungakawa we had to find out as much as we could about it. We had to think about history, today (the present) and also the future.
George