Ngā Mahi ā te Whare Pora Assessment Activity
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Date
Activity title
Whakarite
Unit standard
Title
Prepare harakeke for kete
Number
7869
Version
4
Level
2
Credits
2
Assessed element
Element 1
Harvest harakeke to complete a kete.
Element 2
Prepare harakeke ready to complete a kete.
Element 3
Identify and prepare tools used to complete a kete.
Conditions
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All activities must be correctly completed before credits are awarded.
Your assessor will discuss with you
– how long you have to complete these assessment activities
– the methods of assessments and collection of evidence for authenticity and
– the processes for reassessment.
Candidate must demonstrate individual competence.
These assessments must be completed during course hours.
Resources
Due to the use of tools “special note 3” applies during this
assessment.
Tools will be made available, a knife, razor, needles, haehae.
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Instructions
You will
 Harvest harakeke
 Identify and prepare the tools to complete the kete
 Prepare harakeke to complete a kete.
 Practice and maintain tikanga and kawa principles during the harvest in regards to biosustainability of the plant.
The assessor/kaitohu is expected to observe you during the harvesting of the harakeke.
Activities are to be carried out under kaitohu supervision with minimal guidance.
Take a lot of photographs of you at each stage of the project, while you are working etc,
and keep them in a portfolio.
Submit your portfolio of photographs as evidence with your completed product.
Project specifications
Harvest and prepare harakeke to complete a kete using 80 whenu at 1.27 cm wide.
Expose sufficient muka at the ends of the harakeke to complete the whiri for the base of the kete.
Activity 1 (Performance criteria 1.1)
Research and identify at least two varieties of harakeke growing in your rohe that are
suitable to make kete, and who has mandate to give permission to harvest the harakeke.
Activity 1a (Performance criteria 3.1)
Research and name the traditional tools made of stone, bone and shell used to for kete
making.
Activity 2 (Performance criteria 1.2)
Get permission to harvest the in accordance your research and iwi and hapū traditions.
Activity 2a (Performance criteria 3.2)
Prepare the following tools to harvest and work with the harakeke to complete a kete
 a knife
 razor
 needles, and
 haehae.
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Activity 2b (Performance criteria 1.3)
Take a sharp tool.
Harvest enough harakeke to meet the requirements of the project specifications.
During the harvest practice and maintain the tikanga and kawa of rohe in regards to the
bio-sustainability management of the plant.
Activity 3 (Performance criteria 2.1)
Strip the harakeke leaves.
Assemble harakeke as specified in the project specifications.
Check the quantity, quality and size of the harakeke meet the project specifications.
Activity 3a (Performance criteria 2.2, 2.3)
Using the correct tools scrape and soften the harakeke exposing sufficient muka at the
ends to complete the whiri.
Make sure the muka is of the correct length, quantity and quality to complete the whiri.
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