ngatu

                                                                              Ngatu

The group of women sit around a wooden table using  gooey,white paste then spreading it around the sheet.The group is learning how to make a ngatu made out of bark,ngatu is known as a tapa in many pacifica.Megan and lita are cousin they get to spend the day with their grandmother.Uoleva their mothers and other women and girls from the tongan community in Wellington.Uovela and her sister Mele are the eldest of the Taukei of the group.The two sister remember back in the 1950’s,1960’s they lived in a village called Tatakamotonga.