TUKU TUKU WEAVING
Maori And Pakeha Work Together
Maori and pakeha women have worked side by side in the tuku tuku work in the Rehua meetinghouse. “They have all enjoyed it very much,” said Mrs Henere Toka, the leader of the tuku tuku work. It was a great experience to come to a place where so many Maori women knew so little about Maori crafts, she said. Work on the meeting-house was a wonderful opportunity, particularly for the younger women, to join in the revived interest in the traditional Maori arts.
Men had also joined in the tuku tuku work—“and enjoyed it immensely,” said Mrs Toka. The work is done on a base of kakaho stems, through which prepared kie-kie and pingao vines are woven. Fifteen different designs have been used. Each has a traditional and . poetic name. One of Mrs Toka’s favourites is “purapurawhetu” which means “seedlings of the stars.” “But I love them all,” she said.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29380, 6 December 1960, Page 2
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