Tuesday: Response to Text

 Tongan Art Forms: 

Highlight the correct answers

Ta’ovala (mat weaving):

1. Which of the following is not a way that mat weaving is used for?

a) bedding b) weddings

c) shoe holder d) flooring

2. What do mats signify?

a) love b) respect

c) health d) social status

3. What is the tongan word for ‘mat weaving’?

a) kiekie b) ta’ovala

c) ngatu d) kava

Ngatu Tonga (tapa cloth):

4. From what tree is the bark used to make tapa from?

a) Paper Mulberry b) Wood Blueberry

c) Bone Strawberry d) Card Raspberry

5. The women design the tapa using what?

→The Paper Mulberry Tree, and pieces of bark are beaten with a mallet.

6. Where do the patterns on ngatu come from?

→The ngatu are decorated with motifs and patterns taken from nature.

Wood and bone carvings: 

7. Why is wood carving important to Tongan culture?

→Carving with wood and bone is very important because men would carve wood, making bowls, head rests, log drums, weapons, kava bowls, canoes and paddles, and fish hooks. 

8. What are 3 different things that are carved out of bone?

→Necklaces, bracelets and earrings.

9. Were whale bones hard to find for carving? If so, why?

→No, they didn’t want to make the whale species extinct

10. Name 3 different things that are carved out of wood.

→Kava bowls Fish hooks and paddles