Kuta and Kiekie

Yesterday in our class (Nga here Kahikatea) we were lucky enough to be able to spend a whole day at Lake Ianthe.To get there it took us about an hour and a half by car.

 The first thing we did was say a karakia just to thank the atua for giving us life!Once saying the karakia the boys got right into the water and started grabbing the Kuta but they made sure to grab it from the bottom/roots so that they didn’t snap. They tried to get the longer one’s as Matua Joe told them that the longer they are the better!

Once grabbed what we needed we started to collect Kiekie, to get the kiekie one of us had to go into the bush but not to far, once Morgan got far enough in to get the good pieces by good pieces I mean he started to get the ones that were high up as they got more sunlight then the ones that were closer to the ground!Morgan also tired to get the darker ones as they are better for weaving.After getting the kiekie we started to strip of the pieces we didn’t need, so by that I mean the part that we needed from the leaves  where the white bits we had to strip everything other than the white bits.

We are going to dry out all the plant life that we collected yesterday to do some weaving and learn the background about Kuta and Kiekie so we can have more knowledge about the plants and papatuanuku!