Samoan Siapo

YAY it's finally finished!! Here's a picture of our completed class siapo and a description of how we made it and what it means.

First we got an A4 piece of paper.
Then we chose our design and copied it in pencil. I chose the fishing net because i like going fishing.    
Next we coloured in the black bits with pencil.
When we had finished that we got black paint and went over the pencil lines with the black paint.
Next Mr. Baylis got some hot water and put some normal tea bags in the water.
Then we got the tea bags and dabbed it on the paper until the paper was all covered with tea.
Then we let them dry and taped them all together. 
 When we had finished we had a big siapo.

Samoa

A Siapo is like a Samoan quilt but not really a quilt. It has a whole bunch of pictures together that show what happens in the village.

They cut bark off a tree and soak it, then they cut the rough stuff off, then they soak it again then they soak it again and dry it. Then they make dye for the earth and leaves and bark and stuff and use it to paint the pictures.
By James, Jacqui, and Shawna.


We are creating our own siapo. Here are the symbols we chose from:

Here are some photos of how we are doing, we will hopefully have a completed Siapo really soon!!

Culture

We started our unit by analysing our own culture and aspects of New Zealand culture.

We've now travelled onto our first world cup country Samoa. We have been researching the national anthem, land, languages among other things. Next week we will be comparing these to our own culture.

We have also been learning and practising a samoan sasa, and have just started a samoan siapo for the class. When these are finished we will share them with you on here : )