Demonstrate knowledge of customary whakairo designs and their meaning

Standard 23007

Success Criteria

Unit Standard 23007

Read the following key words. This is what you need to include in your assessment. You need to do this for three different designs (of your choice).

Customary – is in accordance with customs of habitual practice, kawa and tikanga. They way carving is done.

Meaning – in this context refer to the interpretation of characteristics aligned to valid Māori narratives.

Ngā kōrero tuku iho are Māori stories, or histories, which provide a basis or rationale for Māori belief systems and tikanga. They may be found in Māori oral traditions or in written works. They may also be particular to a tohunga whakairo, marae, whānau, hapū, or iwi; and are often revered as treasured accounts to be passed down the generations.

Design elements – the basic qualities of two and three-dimensional compositions (e.g. line, point, tone, texture, colour, form or mass, shape, space). Make sure you use these words when you describe what the design you are learning about looks like.

Make a copy of this document, name it, save to your NHK folder and then answer the questions, to make sure you have found the information that you need to.

Your final assessment will include three different designs. You will have all of the above details for each design. You can hand this is on paper or digitally, whichever suits you best. You could even have your designs and screencastify your self talking about them if that is the best way for you. make sure you include references for the resources you have used.

1: Make a copy of this document. You need to find out some information about different kinds of designs and then add your own.

2: Each of you must research two -three different designs. Work hard, look in multiple place for information and create a presentation for the wall of our whare, including everything from the carving designs drawing (to the left of these words). We are doing this to āwhi each other.

Use the books in our whare, the internet and the photocopies you have. Use all the sources to gather information and keep track of the reference you used.

Whakairo rākau (wood carving) is significant for specific things like the carvings at the marae, wharenui, pounamu, and on waka. Carvings tell stories, pass information from generation to generations and show us whakapapa. According to some ngā kōrero tuku iho, the art of carving comes directly from atua who did it themselves. Rua-i-te-pukenga introduced carving to the world after learning it from Rangi-tamaku, the second of the twelve heavens counting upwards from Earth. Read this if you are interested in finding out more.

Resources online that could help:

Māori carving patterns

Sculpture and design

NZ.com

Ngaitahu stories

Karakia used for carving

Ukuhia te ata o te whakairo,