Ngatu

Ngatu

Hello i am naiema and i will be teaching you about the Ngatu cloth.

The Ngatu cloth it is a cloth that people in in tonga they make it a diffirent way then we do here in
new zealnd here are the different ways they make it in New Zealand.

In new zealnd

1 In a school of hall  of woman abnd girls cover the table with miteral this will be abking the ngatu.

2 They line up the feta’aki along with the table on top of this backing material then they pass
the edges of the fete’aki to the backing material..

3 They cover the backing material with a past.

4 They cerefuly lay the fete’aki over the top of the backing material then they press the two
pices togeather they slowly rool it up. 5 Thya carry the ngatu out side and rool it out on the
concret so it can dry in the sun
while it drys they will paint the Ngatu with the

clouer brown dye useing a pice of feta’aki as a brush.

In tonga they

After the hiapo is cut down the woman and girls pell the bark from the tree

Next they hang the bark in the sun to dry

After they have done they they soke the dry bark in water to make it soft

Next they beat rhe bark with a wodden tole called ike to make it thinner and widder

Strate after that they dry the bark again

What is the ngatu cloth anyways?

It is a cloth that is made in tonga and  new zealnd woman make it with there kids and girls this is
a time where they can talk and have fun another name for the ngatu cloth is the tapa cloth.
Tapa means 1 the bark of the paper mulberry tree. cloth made from tapa, used in the Pacific islands.
It is apart of ther cauture to make it and they wont this to keep going on for genarashions to come.

To be hounest i would like to see them make it in real life.

They orgenated from tonga and they make  This ngatu was specially made for Queen Elizabeth’s visit to Tonga in 1953.
The main social function of ngatu is to be a constantly circulating gift, given at weddings, funerals and other special occasions.  
Larger pieces of ngatu are considered a symbol of wealth and nowadays at weddings in Tonga, a ngatu will be draped over the
wedding car carrying the happy couple.

This was my repot on the ngatu / tapa cloth and i hope you lurnt something about it

This was fun to make but the hard thing was finding out where they first made it and at what year and who made it first
but i am happy with this turn out of my report.