Maori+Art+(6R)

Maori art is usually decorated or highlighted with red ochre mixed with water. The Kokowai was burnt in a fire, ground into a fine powder and mixed with shark oil to make paint. They use that paint to stain woodcarvings. Most of the art was passed down from generation to generation and some teachers teach their students about how to do the art. Most of the art that Maoris do that include faces or weird creatures aren’t religious or have anything to do with idols. But they sometimes represent ancestors. The closest you get to idols are “god sticks” but there are only a few examples of these. They are made out of a wooden stick or peg and are about 18inches long (about 45.72cm) sometimes these “god sticks” have two heads. Maori’s believe that when a god stick was bound with a cord in a special way and red feathers were strung around the god stick a god would enter. Meeting houses were usually decorated with carvings. Greenstone was commonly used to make spears, hooks and other things used in their daily lives.
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