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Te Tuhi
Learning Experiences Outside the Classroom
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2. Welcome Thank you for using this pre-visit resource.
We believe this will help strengthen student learning leading up to and during your gallery visit.

3. Stories from the Pacific
Te Tuhi
Pre visit lesson 2
Stories from the Pacific: Polynesian Tapa

4. Welcome to Stories from the Pacific
During this lesson we will learn about…
But before we start, let’s recap on what we learnt during our last lesson…
Inspired by tapa
Welcome…

5. During our last lesson we learnt that Polynesian tapa…
is used for clothing, costume, masks, blankets, bedrooms and to help celebrate birthdays and weddings.
During our last lesson we learnt that Polynesian tapa…
What we have learnt so far…
is made from the bark of the paper mulberry tree. The bark is flattened, dried and then decorated with dye.
have different designs. They use different colours, patterns and symbols to one another

6. Let’s start this lesson by exploring ‘Inspired by tapa’.
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7. During our last lesson we saw many examples of Polynesian tapa.
During this lesson we will see how tapa inspires famous Pacific artists and their art.
Tapa inspires artists and artworks…
Image: Neich, Roger and Pendergrast, Mick. Pacific Tapa. Auckland NZ: David Bateman Ltd, 1997.

8. Fatu Feu’u Fatu Feu’u is a Samoan artist living in New Zealand.
Fatu paints flowers, fish, people, masks and other symbols and patterns that reflect his culture and his story.
Fatu tells stories by arranging his symbols in a similar way to how symbols are arranged on tapa cloth.
Fatu Feu’u
Image:
Neich, Roger and Pendergrast, Mick. Pacific Tapa. Auckland NZ: David Bateman Ltd, 1997.

9. John Pule
Niuean painter and poet John Pule is also inspired by Polynesian tapa.
John likes to use earthy colours and sometimes paints in a circle like Niuean tapa cloth hiapo.
In this painting we see symbols in boxes that reflect his journey as a boy moving from Nuie to NZ.
John Pule
Image:
Neich, Roger and Pendergrast, Mick. Pacific Tapa. Auckland NZ: David Bateman Ltd, 1997.

10. Dagmar Dyck
Dagmar Dyck is an artist of Tongan and German heritage. Identity and culture inspire a lot of Dagmar’s art.
Dagmar combines her Tongan and German heritage through her art by painting squares and rectangles like Ngatu (Tongan tapa) but using colours similar to paintings by German painter Piet Mondrian.
Using colour, shapes and imagery Dagmar’s art reflects both her Tongan and German heritage.
Dagmar Dyck
Painting by Piet Mondrian
Image:
Neich, Roger and Pendergrast, Mick. Pacific Tapa. Auckland NZ: David Bateman Ltd, 1997.

11. Ahota’ei’loa Toetu’u
Ahota’ei’loa Toetu’u is a Tongan painter and is inspired by Tongan culture.
His paintings are inspired by the way Ngatu can tell stories through symbols.
He uses warm colours like red, yellow and orange, maybe to reflect how vibrant and colourful the Pacific can be.
Ahota’ei’loa paints personal symbols and uses bright colours to show his inspiration of tapa cloth and to tell his Tongan story.
Ahota’ei’loa Toetu’u
In this particular painting the use of black influenced by ngatu ‘uli, a black bark cloth worn during funerals.
Image:
Neich, Roger and Pendergrast, Mick. Pacific Tapa. Auckland NZ: David Bateman Ltd, 1997.

12. Let’s recap on what we have learnt so far…
As we have seen, Polynesian tapa inspires many artists in different ways to tell their story…
Let’s recap on what we have learnt so far…
Lets recap on what we have learnt…

13. What have we learnt so far?
Polynesian tapa…
Inspires artists to tell stories of where they grew up.
Inspires artists to make art about their culture and community.
Inspires artists to make art about their ancestors and history.
What we have learnt so far…

14. In the next lesson we will explore ‘Designing our story - Symbols’.
Next time…
End of lesson