Tongan Ngatu Design

 

Tongan Art Forms - 4 Facts

 

Tongan Art Forms - Questions

 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?

→   Women work with each other to decorate the cloth using natural dyes and pigments.

6. Where do the patterns on ngatu come from?

→Ngatu are given as gifts, like the ta’ovala, and the bigger the size

Wood and bone carvings: 

7. Why is wood carving important to Tongan culture?

→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?

→whale that had been stranded for a long time. They didn’t go after whales that were alive because they didn’t want to make the whale species extinct.

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

→ Log Drums, Kava Bowl and Weapons

Gold - Multiplication 2

 

Silver - Multiplication 2

 

Bronze - Multiplication 2

 

Alphabet Brainstorm - Tonga words

 Alphabet Brainstorm

~Tonga~

(Pg101, Sheena Cameron and Louise Dempsey, The Writing Book)

For each letter of the alphabet, write a sentence about Tonga which includes 1 descriptive word which starts with that letter. A has been done for you.

A	Tonga has an ancient village which shows how the people of Tonga used to live many years ago.
B	Ha’atafu Beach is a protected beach with swimming and surfing
C	Free church of Tonga is a Good church to pray and learn about stuff in the bible
D	In tonga ducks and geese and swans and waterfowls live in tonga
E	Everyday Tongan people help people out with their medicine
F	Fafa Island Is for Snorkeling and for a trip
G	Tonga is a good Country to visit because it is good for swimming around
H	Ha'amonga A Maui is an historical Landmark
I	There are no dangerous insects in tonga
J	Butter and jam sandwich is very nice to eat in tonga
K	Tonga kiekie is very nice and their only suppose to go on women
L	Luahoko is an island in tonga
M	Monu is a Small island with tree all inside it
N	Nomuka is a small tongan island with lakes
O	Oholei Beach is a Beautiful Beach with little Huts and a destination for traditional dance shows
P	Pangaimotu has a ship in the middle of the ocean and is a nice beautiful beach to go swimming except for the fat their is a ship in the middle of the ocean
Q	Queen Elizabeth, but has remained the only Pacific nation to not give up its own government. In 1970, Tonga became independent, and in 1999 became a member of the United Nations.
R	Royal palace is a palace in tonga it is a beautiful place to visit
S	Metis Shoal is a volcano island in Tonga
T	Tonga has more or 170 islands altogether
U	Uoleva is an romantic place and kitesurfing, Beach,
V	Vavalu is an island group in tonga
W	In tonga blowholes a very popular in tonga because there are heaps of islands and water around
X	long time ago Tongan people used to exile people
Y	Tongan sand are very nice they are yellow and are very small.
Z	the tonga zoo have a beautiful animals from the zoo