Red ochre (burnt red clay) used to decorate wood or other materials.
Example sentencesExamples
- Colleen sees this process as having an affinity with the custom of using kokowai (a baked and ground red clay mixed with oil) in ancient rituals.
- The kokowai was burned in a fire, ground into a fine powder and mixed with shark oil to make paint.
- They oiled her down with kokowai to keep the cold out and they constructed a little raft out of raupo to keep the baby buoyant and out of the water.
- These, with the red kokowai, constituted the ‘palette’ of the old-time Maoris.
- The ribbon is red ochre (kokowai) with a narrow white stripe towards either edge.