He taonga Maori Auckland Museum

The Hotunui marae

Over 1000 taonga are displayed in the main Maori galleries, He Taonga Maori (Maori Court) and Te Ao Turoa (Maori Natural History Gallery) and many more are held in storage. These Taonga are the ancestral representations of all the major tribes of Aotearoa. The Taonga provides the Moari people with a little glimpse of their past, the history and the people that came before them. In the Maori court the one thing that really stood out for me was the Hotunui Marae.The Hotunui marae was built in 1878 which it was carved by Wepiha Apanui and his father Apanui Te Hamai waho. Hotunui was originally a wedding gift from Ngati awa to Weipiha's sister Mereana who was marrying a Ngati Maru leader, now it stands in the auckland museum to this present day. A Marae is a sacred place for Maori's. it is a sacred place which serves both religious and social purposes in maori societies, which carries great cultural meaning. In Maori society, the Marae is a place where the Maori culture can be celebrated, where the Maori language can be spoken, where inter tribal discussions, debating and obligations can be met .Also Marae's are for when family occasions such as birthdays can be held, and where important ceremonies, such as welcoming visitors or fare welling the dead, can be performed.The word marae is found in many languages in the Polynesia example Malae (Samoan and Hawaii) and Mala'e (tongan) and you find Malae's or mala'es in Samoa, Tonga and Hawaii, its just not structured or built the same way. also In Tahiti Marae were dedicated to specific deities or leaders of the people, and also connected with specific lineages said to have built them during the 1994 restoration of Taputapuatea Marae at Ra'iatea by archaeologists from the tahiti museum. so you find Marae's not only in aotearoa but also all over the pacific nation. overall the Marae at the museum shows the real significance of maori cluture and the way they have been using sculptue to theiir cultural heritage to design such a beautiful building that they call the Marae.

Tongan style.

artists- Lingisiva ‘Aloua, Kolokesa Kulīkefu, Noma‘Ofa-ki-Nu’usila Talakia’atu, Manuēsina Tōnata, Hūlita Tupou

Curated by: Kolokesa Māhina-Tuai & Manuēsina Māhina

This exhibition that we attended (Tefisi style) at the fresh gallery was held in Otara. Fresh art gallery is made and viewed for young pacific Islanders, it allows young artists who are mainly local to view their artwork not just anywhere but in otara. Tefisi gallery was about 5 tongan New Zealand-based women artists who had something to show about were they come from and their cultural heritage. Each piece of artwork that they had made and displayed was about their labour, time and of their Tongan tradition, Tefisi style is just about the art practices of tongan woman who use these talents and skills that they have been passing on for generations to create embroidery and crochets sheets, pillow cases and dresses. the dresses that was designed in the Tefisi artwork was used and designed to be worn in churches, funerals, christenings and other special occasions.. The dresses can also show a persons status, like number nine of the exhibition list where u have an outfit that was specially made for Sepitema - a special Sunday in September that is dedicated to woman who have reached the equivalent of men's lay preacher, where they renew their governance with God . Also to wear a kiekie (waist ornament) is also an important part of the formal attire for Tongan's to wear at church for example the Tongan Methodist church. The real uniqueness of these pieces of art work is that embroidery is applied to clothing,giving that distinct look known to the Tongans as Tefisi style. and the embroidery is now done on cotton sheets unlike the traditional ways which it was done on cloth made of bark, also known as tapa cloth.embroidered pillowcase was used in January 2001 by Kolokesa's late father during the period prior to his passing. It was also used to decorate the pillows for her sons wedding when he got married in 2007.

Star Wars

In our tutorial we watched the movie starwars "A new hope" and had to choose a character that we thought we had found interesting. For me the character i found the most interesting would have to be Darth Vader because i find him an exciting character to watch not only because he was an ex jedi but because he was a villian an a traitor. Darth Vader was the scourge of the jedi, a master of the dark side of the force, and one of the emperors most trusted servants.Darth Vader was once part of the rebel alliance but soon became an alliance of the rebel force.Darth vader tries to recover the stolen plans of the death star and find the rebel alliances secret base, and in doing that he shows how powerful he really is and takes over this ship and captures princess Leia organa. he restrains her and shows her the power he has when he destroys her home world of alderaan. Another part of the film that shows darth vaders power was when he has a light saber duel with his former master obi-wan kenobi , darth vader emerges victorious. evan though the movie shows you that obi-wan kenobi sacrifices himself for luke and his friends to escape, I still think darth vador won fair and square haha.Darth vador has also showed in many other star war trilogies such as the first star wars IV, V ,VI and now in the latest star wars film "the revenge of the sith. In this film its about how young Anikan Skywalker betrays the jedi's and becomes part of the dark side of the force. ultimately to his fall in the battle against Obi-Wan Kenobi, it was eventually the new birth of Darth Vader.