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WIKITORIA RANDALL
KAIAKO FOR THE WHAARIKI COURSE
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Wiki learned raranga with her sister Erenora Puketapu-Hetet in the early 1980s and went on to teach raranga for more than 30 years.
For the opening of Wainuiomata marae, Wiki was called on to supervise the weaving of the many whaariki for the wharenui and continued to specialise in raranga and whaariki weaving.
Wiki and her husband Sonny, established a training programme for youth and long term unemployed in Wainuiomata where she taught weaving until recently.
A long time resident of Wainuiomata, Wiki has now returned to live in the tribal settlement of her father's people at Waiwhetu.
She continues to weave and enjoy gardening as well as her many mokopuna and great mokopuna.
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