In the 1800s, most Māori lived in villages called pa. Each village had many buildings – kauta where people cooked, pataka where they stored goods and wharepuni where the Māori slept. A traditional wharepuni had a thatched roof and walls made of timber, fern, rushes and bark. Look at the picture below of a traditional wharepuni. Does it look like your house?
Task:
On your blog, compare the wharepuni to your own home. What are two similarities and two differences between a wharepuni and your house?
Make sure to check my blog again in a couple of days to see more posts like this one.
Similarities:
- Roof line shape is the same to allow rain to run off.
- Veranda protects the doorway from the weather, and provides a place to sit out of the sun.
Differences
- My house is made out of different materials to the wharepuni, such as bricks rather than things like fern and bark.
- My house does not have the Maori carvings and is just plain and simple.
Hi Ella
ReplyDeleteGreat presentation! I love that you have used colour in this one.
Very good comparisons to the shape of the roof, really important on the West Coast that the rain can run off the roof.
The carvings that you see on the meeting houses are just amazing aren't they?
Have you been to the Arahura Pa in Hokitika? The meeting house down there is simply very beautiful. And is the perfect spot overlooking the sea and Hokitika.
Well done once again Ella
Until next time
Allie :)