Marae work
Members of Ohakune's Maungarongo Pa and their relatives were working hard last week to make fittings for the pa's new kohanga reo, or language nest. Y oungsters in the kohanga reo will be surrounded by woven tukutuku panels in traditional designs such as a poutama pattern representing the seven stages of life from conception to old age and death. While the women, led by Mrs B. Mareikura, threaded
up the complex tukutuku patterns that George Waretini had drawn up, Bobby Gray painted a kowhaiwhai board that will form part of the surround for the panels. Elsewhere in the big workroom a woman wove flax mats, while in another part of the pa workers were making piopio, flax skirts, for the children to wear in traditional dances. The community effort involves more than 20 people, including kohanga reo supervisors and trainees from around the Wanganui region.
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Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 3, Issue 16, 10 September 1985, Page 20
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147Marae work Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 3, Issue 16, 10 September 1985, Page 20
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