Types of art Maori Questions

 1) What are the 4 main Māori art forms

→ Māori visual art consists primarily of four forms: carving, tattooing (ta moko), weaving, and painting.

2) Which of these were not a typical material that Māori used for carving?

a) Wood

b) Bone

c) Stone

d) Flax

3) What is Pounamu

a) Flax Leaves

b) Kauri Wood

c) Whale Bone

d) Greenstone

4) Traditionally Ta Moko was done with a what?

a) Tattoo needle

b) Chisel

5) Where did women traditionally get tattooed?

→ Women were traditionally only tattooed on their lips, around the chin, and sometimes the nostrils.

6) What was weaving used to create?

→ Even before the actual process of weaving was discovered, the basic principle of weaving was applied to interlace branches and twigs to create fences, shelters and baskets for protection.

 

8) Painting was mostly used for?
a) Fake tattoos

b) Tagging

c) Decoration

d) Portraits