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Friday 9 July 2021

TIKI

Welcome to my next blog post. Today I am showing you my amazing art. First I drew a Tiki and then filled it in with pastel colour. Then I folded it into the shape of a kite and water coloured the back ground.

Matariki and the Pleiades star cluster, have got many stories attached to them. We looked at two; one about how Ranginui and Papatuanuku were separated by Tāne Mahuta, and how Tāwhirimatea was so angry he ripped out his eyes and threw thunderbolts to the sky, creating the cluster, and another story about 7 sisters making kites, and them going to the sky. Ururangi’s kite was different from the rest, it was rainbow coloured. We have mixed these two stories to create the design of our kites.