August 08, 2016
App brings marae home
Visitors to Papakura Marae can now find ot information on its history and its carvings from an app on their phones.
It’s the creation of Maggie Buxton as part of research for PhD at AUT University.
There’s also a hard copy book about the marae by kaumatua Haare Williams.
Marae Chief Executive, Tony Kake says Papakura Marae was built in 1990 as an urban marae, so the carvings represent Nga hau e wha.
"It’s important that when visitors do come that they get that sense they are in Waikato Tainui area but there is also that connection to up north Taitokerau, Tairawhiti, Te Tai Hauauru, to ki Te Tonga hoki so that's the real connection when people come to our marae, it's Maori-inclusive, they can noho with their tupuna, because their tupuna is there, their history is there. We are an urban marae so our carvings depict the range of rohe from throughout the country," he says.
The app only works on the marae itself.
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