Purerehua

Purerehua are musical instruments used by Maori to communicate, call out lizards from the bush, for ceremonies, and as rainmakers. The idea to make these came from a science experiment where we studied the sound produced when you tie a ruler to a piece of string a twirl it around. Children asked if we could make real ones.

I have created an art unit (visual art) where we will learn to make purerehua out of wood. There is a strong link to tikanga maori as we will study the traditional uses and materials used, and also examine examples of maori art design which we will incorporate into the art to decorate the purerehua.

 

 Here is a slideshow resource I made for lesson 1 of the unit. Subsequent lessons involved the completion of the artwork.

 



 

The link on the opening slide is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL4Yq5S1gTY