Literature circles | Passage picker

Today the Brown Kiwi reading group shared their ideas about the passages they'd found interesting in 'A Vanishing Art', an article about making Tapa cloths in Tonga.

Amy got out some real tapa cloths for us to feel and look at. Joe made a connection - when we looked at the back of one of the tapa cloths, he thought it looked like Mali mudcloth (which Gretchen taught M13 about on the last Art Day).

Francesca read out part of the article:

     Tapa's main function is to be a gift that's passed on again and again at weddings, 21sts, funerals , and other important events. In this way, it binds communities and forms links between past, present and future.

She also made a connection; Francesca thought this was like the marae because the marae also supports people who died because the ancestors are on the walls and the roof. We've done this in our class too - another connection!