Kapa Haka Rakau

Last term the Kapa Haka Roopu boys went to go cut some rakau. The rakau we cut was totara Mr Lindsay said that it was really easy to work with. But the only problem was it had to dry up so we waited until this term and they were just dry enough. On Monday we spent the whole day working on them. But before we started to work on them we had to have a karakia. We also  learnt about the tikanga around them. The tikanga was that you could not drop them and also not step over them. We were making these rakau for our Kapa Haka performance. After learning about it we started to get in to it. After taking the bark off and sanding them down we coated them with oil. We had to coat them four times but only two of us did. I had to coat it one more time.