Te Poutama Meaning-Hayley and Jess

I think that the Te Poutama pattern represents Tane and “climbing up too the Heavens as he was seeking the baskets.

I also believe  that resembles too us moving upwards as we continue onto college as in “moving up like Tane did with the stairs.

Poutama it self is a stepped patterns of Tukutuku panels and woven mats-symbolising genealogies and also the different levels of high achievements.
Te Poutama is said to represent the stairs Tane climbed to the top most realm in his quest for knowledge.