Warren Pohatu Art

Stories From The Pacific

Stories From The Pacific

p1:what we did.

p2:How to make tapa

p3:Which pacific Islands and cultures make tapa

This week we did a similar design of a Tapa this Tapa is made from crayons,dye and a brown Bakery paper bag.Know I will tell you why I did the designs on the brown bakery paper bag.  

If you want to know how to make tapa you have to chop down paper mulberry trees and tack the bark of it. Then you have to stripe the bark of the tree and flattened then joined together and it will be a large cloth and put it in the sun to try out. When the tapa is try you can put it over a carving and pushed to see the pattern then put dye over the out line. Next the pattern is decorated with black and brown dye and that is how you can make a tapa.

The pacific Island that make tapa is Solomon island,Fiji,Tonga,Niue,cook island and more. There is about 13 pacific islands and cultures that make tapa. There is all types of cultures in the pacific. and this is how it will end up at the end.

The Museum Trip

The Museum Trip

On Tuesday week 3 term 4 all most of the year 7's went to the Auckland museum on a bus for our art attack topic. we looked at all of the art work that was made in New Zealand and the time we got to the museum at approximately 10:30 am and when the bus came back to school the time was 2:30 and we started to play so makalo and 21.

When we were at the museum we were looking at the Maori art there was a lot of designs and carving. Then we went in to the Mari and there were so much of sacred designs. After we went to the pacific designs and weapons there were about 20 old shark tooth weapons. and there were some thorns on some to.

After that we went into a room full of sea creatures and sharks. The scariest shark was the big as shark called the great  white but this great white was 5x bigger than all of the other sharks those other sharks were kind of small but the shark that I wanted to see was the tiger shark. Then after we went to the volcano shelter.