Kite-Making By The Maori People Of New Zealand

• The priests who made the kites had rules for size and scale.

•  was not allowed during a kite’s preparation.

Kites:

• often represented a bird, a god, or a .

• had frames that were decorated with grasses and .

• had a line of noisy  attached to them.

• could be triangular, rectangular or  shaped.

• had patterns made from clay mixed with  oil.

• sometimes had human-head masks with and a tattoo.

Purpose and function of kites:

• away of sending  to the gods.

• a way of telling other villages that a  was necessary.

• a means of  if enemies were coming.