filipe tohi

On the Tuesday 3.9.2019 room 5, 6, 7, and 8 went to the hall there was a man named filipe tohi he came to show some of his art. Most of them are tongan he is a good artes he makes art in traditional ways. And show us how it is made and also about what is means his art is related to to a lot of countries most are pacifica his arts. Are made of of lashes that is made of coconut skin it is not easy to make the arts that made out of lashes because one art is about 100 to 50 lashes. When he came to nz he was a little boy he made . An art of a big eyeball to show how he felt he had a dream. So he told his teacher he wanted to be a kafu king and a good artis so he went to. Kafu but it did not work then he went to an art plase and it did work out he did not learn how to do art by. Himself he got it from his grandma and his grandma learned it from his grandma. He told us what jobs do. The boys and the girls do the boy make the house and the girls make the roof also the decoration. He Travel to China, Fiji, Samoa and make beautiful statues. His biggest art or statue took about 3 years. He showed us a picture of a very old monument It was the statue that made him make arts so he made better art and statue. Most of the things he made are made out of strings and rocks. It may take him years to make a rock statue his arts means birds, fish. He is old but he can still make arts the end by eh htoo wah paw and an art lover.