Mrs Rangimarie Hetet showing us a completed piupiu of her handiwork. The pattern is called poutama. KO TE MAHI O TE PIUPIU THE ART OF MAKING PIUPIU by Rangimarie Hetet and Ina Te Uira Photography: Peter Blanc Ko te mahi a ringaringa te mahi tino pai rawa ki nga ropu wahine o te motu nei. Ko nga ropu wahine Maori kahore he mahi a ringaringa tino pai rawa i tua atu i nga mahi tuturu Maori. Tera tetahi tuturu mahi a rangaringa a te Maori ko te mahi o te piupiu. Tena pea he tokomaha nga ropu wahine Maori tamariki Maori whakahaere kapa haka e kuare ki te mahi o te piupiu. No reira ko nga korero ka whai ake nei he tohutohu na tetahi wahine tohunga mo nga mahi Maori ko tona ingoa ko Rangimarie Hetet no Maniapoto kei ia a nga tohutohutanga mo te mahi o te piupiu. Hiahia atu au ki te piupiu nei me pehea ra e oti ai he piupiu moku? Ko tetahi hoki me pehea ra te ahua o te harakeke tika e oti ai he piupiu. He aha? Nga harareke pai ko nga mea ngahoro nga whara pai nga ruku a otira tino harakeke pai he taiore mo te piupiu. Me pehea e oti ai enei Mrs Rangimarie Hetet, one of the best exponents of Maori crafts, showed Te Ao Hou how a piupiu is made. We thought it would be interesting to get the whole story in the Maori language and so Miss Ina Te Uira, Maori Welfare Officer in Te Kuiti, interviewed Mrs Hetet who described how this work is done. A tape recording was made which was broadcast over the YA stations last November and is now printed here in its original form. Photographs and an English translation should help to make the story clear and enable our readers to improve, if necessary, on their own ways of making Maori kilts.