Monday, March 12, 2012

Making our Korowai

Making our Korowai (Maori cloak)

Firstly, when making our korowai, we had to translate words that are important to our culture, into other languages. We used Babelfish and English to Samoan dictionaries. Then we wrote our translated word onto 1 metre strips of wallpaper using stencils and Vivid. Next we dyed our wallpaper brown and red. We drew important symbols that represent New Zealand and weaved the Korowai together.

Jack and Corbyn F stuck on quail feathers around the outside as a border. We each made and dyed paper feathers with our names on them and glued them on top of the Korowai. Mr Silcock came into Room 5 and said the korowai would sell for $1000 dollars!

By Jack and Corban E 

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