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?
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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.
