Matahiwi Marae Trip

Today (5.9.17) all of the year eights from Nepia and TeKanua went to the Matahiwi Marae. It was really interesting and the elders there told us about some of their culture and ancestry and history. And seeing inside the meeting house with all the whakapakoko or statues and how the meeting house represented the spine. And how outside the meeting house it had the statues all representing something different and how at the back of the meeting house it had a whales jaw bone.