"And a Pukeko in a Ponga Tree"

Appliqué Quilt

This fun quilt represents a take off of the traditional Christmas carol "And a Partridge in a Pear Tree".  The pukeko is a swamp hen from New Zealand that has in recent years become everyone's favorite ceramic garden piece, dispatching the garden gnome to the woodshed!  The ponga is the term for any of the tree ferns that blanket the landscape of New Zealand.

A Pukeko in a Ponga Tree - words by Rev. Kingi Ihake

On the first day of Christmas My true love gave to me
A Pukeko in a ponga tree
--- and so on until ---
On the twelfth day of Christmas My true love gave to me
Twelve piupiu swinging, Eleven haka lessons, Ten juicy fish heads, Nine sacks of pipis, Eight plants of puka, Seven eels a swimming, Six pois a twirling, Five --- big --- fat --- pigs! Four huhu grubs, Three flax kete, Two kumara, And a pukeko in a ponga tree!

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