Hands on Tauranga offers students stimulating and original learning opportunities with real museum objects that support the New Zealand curriculum at primary and secondary school level.
Two carved and painted hue. Hue (Polynesian bottle gourds) were used to store water or preserved food.
The earliest evidence of hue (gourds) is in archaeological sites in Peru dating back to 13,000 BC and Thailand sites in 11,000 BC. Gourds have had numerous uses including musical instruments, tools, decorative objects; food, water and food vessels.
Hue grow on vines (taking around 100 days to grow), and are then dried out before being used as vessels or ornaments. It can take anywhere from a few weeks to six months for the gourd to dry out ready for use.
Why not use these hue to teach about :
Te Pūrākau o Taurikura
> Stories of Tauranga Moana (Te Pūrākau o Taurikura on page 29) http://paekoroki.tauranga.govt.nz/nodes/view/24410
>Map of Taurikura's haerenga (journey)
https://paekoroki.tauranga.govt.nz/nodes/view/8335?keywords=
The Battle of Pukehinahina Gate Pā
> http://www.battleofgatepa.com/quick-history
Included with these hue are laminated photos of
-a painting from Te Pakanga o Pukehinahina - Colonel Booth being given water from a gourd https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/lieutenant-colonel-booth-gate-pa
-a painting of Taurikura by Michelle Estall, with the pūrākau of Taurikura on the back. A gourd features in this story of Taurikura who refused to collect water for her grandfather.
-photo of the gourd carving (related to the pūrākau of Taurikura) on the corner of Spring St and Grey St, Tauranga CBD
-a gourd growing on a vine
-a hue from Canterbury Museum https://teara.govt.nz/en/object/1789/a-gourd-used-by-maori
Date: 21st century
maximum dimension: 30cm
subject area: Social Science, Science, The Arts, PE and Health
subject themes: plants, gardening, Aotearoa Histories, māori, calabash
handling collection number: HC230
