Samoan Art Questions

 Samoan Art - Questions

Please read the article on Samoan Art here before answering the questions.

1) Today we are learning about art from:

a) Samoan b) Tongan

c) Fijian d) Niuean

2) What is the name of the big upside down triangle that represents extended family on a tatau?

a) Pula tama b) Pula tele

c) Va’a d) Asofa’aifo

3) How many traditional patterns can be found on siapo?

a) 20 b) 12

c) 13 c) 5

i) What is fa’a sigago?

→ represents a flower from a pandaus plant

4) Which animal/insect is not represented in one of the traditional patterns found on siapo?

a) Crab b) Fish

c) Spider d) All of these  

5) What is a difference between Siapo ‘Elei and Siapo mamanu? 

→ I don’t know?

6) What 2 names can be given to the lines that come out from the va’a on a tatau?

→ i don’t know??

A MOMMENT WHEN I WAS HAPPY STORY--RECOUNT

On my birth-day my mum and dad took me to a place called chipmunks.when we got there they bought me evrything they had (he's a ceo worker)  but i could only eat half of it so i gave the rest to my family but it wasn't doneyet they had really steep slides one of them even had bamboo slide and a gun pit.

They also had a bouncy-castle with slide's and a wrestling ring with bouncy fistswhen we were going home my family exept me got mcdonalds and buger king -_- Its like they meant to get me full cause i would of took some of it.

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Niuean History- Questions

Please read the article on Niue here before answering the questions.

1) This week it is _____ language week.

a) Samoan b) Tongan

c) Fijian d) Niuean

2) What is Niue often referred to as?

a) The sun spot of Polynesia b) The Rock of Polynesia

c) The tiny island nation d) The heart of the Pacific

3) Who was the first European settler to sight Niue?

a) Captain James Cook b) Captain Jack Sparrow

c) Captain James Busby c) Captain Hook

i) When did he sight Niue?

→ 

4) What is the name of the Niuean bark cloth?

a) Hiapo b) Tapa Cloth

c) Print d) Patterns

5) Describe what a motif is:

→ decoration or image 

6) Niueans were the first to introduce what to their hiapo?

a) Animals b) Names

c) People d) Flowers

7) How many attempts did Captain Cook make to land in Niue? 

a) Three b) Two

c) None d) One

i) Why do you think the people of Niue refused to let him set foot on shore?

→ the people were being careful?

ART PLANNING

 

Te Oro Questions

 Te Oro’s Tukutuku panel - Questions

Please read the article on here before answering the questions.

1) What does the tukutuku panel present?

→ 

Te ORO visual identity 

2) Who was the identity created by?

a) Alt Group and Ngāti Pāoa

b) Ngātio Pāoa and Glen Innes Group 

c) Alt Group

d) Ngāti Pāoa

3) Who endorsed the identity of the Tukutuku panel?

a) Ngāti Whatua and Ngātu Pāoa

b) Ngāti Pāoa and Ngāti Tai Ki Tāmaki

c) Ngāti Whatua and Ngāti Tai Ki Tāmaki

d) Ngāti Tai Ki Tāmaki and Alt Group

4) How long did it take to create the Tukutuku panel?

a) 2 years

b) 1 month 

c) 4 months

d) 2 months 

5) What Marae were they based at?

→ GI

6) Te Roopū Raranga o Tāmaki Makaurau is a collective of what?

→ ART and weavers

7) Who were the weavers involved in the project?

→ Lorna Rikihana and Kelly Dixon from Ngāti Pāoa, Bernie Papa and Tanya White and Tessa Harris and Huhana Turei

8) What visually reverberates optically through the pattern?
a) Past and present

b) Present and future 

c) Past and future

d) Just the past

Maori Questions

 Types of Māori - Questions

Please read the article on here before answering the questions.

1) What are the 4 main Māori art forms

→ painting weaving carving tattooing 

2) Which of these were not a typical material that Māori used for carving?

a) Wood

b) Bone

c) Stone

d) Flax

3) What is Pounamu

a) Flax Leaves

b) Kauri Wood

c) Whale Bone

d) Greenstone

4) Traditionally Ta Moko was done with a what?

a) Tattoo needle

b) Chisel

5) Where did women traditionally get tattooed?

→ chin 

6) What was weaving used to create?

→ to create houses and important stuff 

7) Why did feather cloaks become more difficult to create?

→ because of the extinction of birds

8) Painting was mostly used for?
a) Fake tattoos

b) Tagging

c) Decoration

d) Portraits

Atr forms 4 facts

 

Symbols and Meaning

 Meaning and symbols

Please read the article on Antarctica here before answering the questions.

 

What’s the name of this pattern? 

→ pakati

What does it represent?

→ dog skin cloak

What’s the name of this pattern? 

→ ahuahu materoa

What does it represent?

→ talent and achievement 

What’s the name of this pattern? 

→ taratarekae 

What does it represent?

→ whale teeth

What’s the name of this pattern? 

→ manaia 

What does it represent?

→ spiritual guardian 

What’s the name of this pattern? 

→ Hei matau 

What does it represent?

→ a Fish hook

4 facts

 

Kowhaiwhai Patterns