To learn the teachings of our tupuna (ancestors) and the history of New Zealand's native people and their land.
On Wednesday, 24th of January the boys from LS2 went on a trip to the Auckland Museum to learnt more about the Maori people, the history, traditional artifacts and their weaponry. First we went to our School hall to meet Matua Ngarimu and Matua Kingi who talked to us about the things we were going to do in the museum, they also told us that there would be a quiz on about the things we learnt about in the museum.
When we arrived at the museum we had morning tea and worker at the museum informed us about the rules of the museum. Once we finished out morning tea, Matua Ngaimu talked to us about the us about the weapons that the Maori people used in their wars, examples of this are: The Tewhatewha which is a long weapon used by the chiefs to direct their men in battle and to decapitate their enemies and the Mere which is a shirt weapon used to deal blows to the enemies head. Matua Kingi talked about the Whaenui and the meaning behind the artworks in the Whaenui. When we finished with the museum, we had lunch after a Karakia by Matua Kingi. After that we leant different moves with the taiaha and the Ka Mate haka moves with the taiaha as well.
Questions
- Name of two short weapons
- Name of two short weapons
- Maori name of the museum
- Maori name of the mountain that the museum is on
- name of the Wharenui
- The three different types of artworks in the Wharenui
