Kawa kawa free#

The task of the elderly women is calling on the visiting groups, and weeping. The job of the elderly men is making speeches and greeting the groups coming on. This is the task of the home people - carrying out the tasks of providing hospitality.

Kawa kawa free#

When their weeping is finished they are free to prepare the beds in the meeting house for the visiting parties and to prepare food for those groups. When the home people know that they have a body of a deceased person they all come to the marae to mourn. Ko tā rātau mahi he noho i te taha o te tūpāpaku tae noa ki te rā e ngaro ai te tūpāpaku ki te kōpū o Papatūānuku.Ka hemo ana te tangata ka uhia ia ki te tapu.Ka haria ake ana te tūpāpaku ki te marae, ka whakatakotoria ki roto i te wharemate.Kātahi ka tīmata te whakaeke mai o ngā manuhiri o ētahi atu wāhi ki te tangi, ki te mihi, ki te poroporoaki ki te tūpāpaku. Kāore kē he āwangawanga o te whānau pani ki te manaaki i te manuhiri.

Ko te mahi a ngā kuia he karanga i ngā ope whakaeke, ā, he tangi. Ko te mahi a ngā koroua he whaikōrero, he mihi ki ngā ope whakaeke. Ko tēnei te mahi a te iwi kāinga - he mahi i ngā mahi e pā ana ki tēnei mea ki te manaaki tangata. Ka mutu ana tā rātau nei tangi, kua wātea rātau ki te whakapai i ngā moenga o roto i te wharenui mō ngā ope whakaeke, ā, ki te taka kai anō hoki mā aua ope. Ka mōhio ana te iwi kāinga he tūpāpaku tō rātau, ka haere katoa mai rātau ki te marae ki te tangi. A takahi whare ritual is held at the decease's home and a hākari concludes the tangihanga. In modern times, on the final day the coffin is closed and a church service is held before the body is taken to the cemetery for burial. On the night before the burial visitors and locals gather to have a pō mihimihi to celebrate the person's life with informal speeches and song. Greenery is the traditional symbol of death, so the women and chief mourners often wear pare kawakawa on their heads. During that time groups of visitors come onto the marae to farewell the deceased with speech making and song.

The body is brought onto the marae by the whānau of the deceased and lies in state in an open coffin for about three days in a wharemate. Weeping, crying, funeral, rites for the dead, obsequies - one of the most important institutions in Māori society, with strong cultural imperatives and protocols.