Intro-4facts

 

Reading-Niue-Questions

 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?

→ 16 century 1744

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:

→ A form of decoration creating a pattern.

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 of Niue were being really cautious of him because 

he was a foreigner from a different country (he wasn’t different to the people of Niue).

Art/Maori Patterns!

 

Te Oro's Tukutuku panel - 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’s 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?

→ Ruapotaka Marae 

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

→ Artists 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