Te Papatohu Maramataka
A living taonga for your whare.
A contemporary expression of the Maramataka, created to bring our relationship with te taiao into everyday whānau life
We were never meant to live by the clock alone
Before time was divided into weeks, schedules and notifications, our tīpuna looked outward.
To the sun and the moon.
To the stars.
To the tides.
To the whenua, the awa, the ngāhere and the tohu around them.
Maramataka is not simply a calendar.
It is a relationship with te taiao and ourselves.
It teaches us to notice. To respond. To understand that not every day asks the same thing of us.
Te Papatohu was created from a desire to bring that relationship into the whare.
Not as another resource to download.
Not as something to read once and put away.
But as something physical and tactile.
Something beautiful and long-lasting
Something you can reach for every day.
Something your tamariki can grow up knowing as normal
What if your babies grew up with this?
A tamaiti reaches up to turn te papatohu maramataka to the moon.
Someone checks the tohu before heading to the māra.
Someone notices the energy of the day before deciding what needs to be done.
A question becomes a kōrero.
A kōrero becomes knowledge.
And over time, knowledge becomes something lived.
This is the shift Te Papatohu was created for
From learning about the Maramataka to living with Maramataka.
Because the deepest learning doesn't happen from being told.
Sometimes it happens through seeing it every day.
Through touching it.
Through asking questions.
Through growing up and living with it.
The Founders Collection
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Te Papatohu Maramataka - Hazelnut
Te Papatohu Maramataka - Hazelnut
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Ngāti Moe · Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa
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FROM KNOWLEDGE TO SOMETHING WE CAN LIVE.
I created Te Papatohu Maramataka because I kept asking myself one question
How do we move Maramataka from something we learn into something we actually live?
For years, I had shared Maramataka through teaching, kōrero and digital spaces.
But I kept coming back to the same feeling.
I didn't want another online thing.
I wanted to create something that could live in the whare.
Something tactile enough for a child to reach for.
Beautiful enough to leave on the wall.
Meaningful enough to become part of everyday whānau life.
And enduring enough that one day, it might still be hanging there for the next generation.
That became Te Papatohu.
A physical expression of Maramataka for contemporary whānau.
Not recreating what came before exactly as it was.
But carrying knowledge forward in a form that can continue to live.
Intergenerational Transmission of Knowledge
Te Papatohu is grounded in Maramataka knowledge carried through whakapapa.
The sequence represented here is connected to the knowledge of Ngāti Moe o Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa, including the local understanding of Kiokio and its relationship with Matohi and Whakapau.
For me, this work is deeply personal and reaches back through my own whakapapa, including my five-times-great-grandfather.
I wanted to create a way for knowledge to keep moving.
From our tīpuna.
To us.
To our tamariki.
To our mokopuna.
This is what revitalization can look like when knowledge becomes part of everyday life.
The NUI Collection
