Our class embarked on a haerenga to Waitangi last Saturday. It was an awesome day for all of us and was described perfectly by one of my fellow tauira Heketia Ahomiro:
"Today we honoured our ancestors, e tātou mā. We reaffirmed their deeds as great mana, he mana tuku iho, mana atua, mana tupuna, mana tangata, mana whenua. Kei tua ko te aka matua he mana Māori motuhake e. How blessed are we?"
I managed to capture snippets of our day and put them together in movie form for us to cherish.
We also had the pleasure of meeting Arama Hamiora Davis in the carving shed based at the Waitangi Treaty grounds. He gave a demo of carving pākati. I managed to film some of it:
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