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Tivaivai: The Social Fabric of the Cook Islands (Artistic Traditions in World Cultures)
Tivaivai The Social Fabric of the Cook Islands - Artistic Traditions in World Cultures
Author: Andrea Eimke, Susanne Kuchler
Quilts generically known as tivaivai have been produced by women in the Cook Islands, the Hawaiian Islands, the Society Islands and elsewhere in Eastern Polynesia since the late 19th century, where they were a substitute for bark-cloth but also used in ways deeply invested in the new context of Christian domesticity. In the Cook Islands, quilts ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780714125800
ISBN-10: 0714125806
Publication Date: 6/30/2009
Pages: 144
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Publisher: British Museum Press
Book Type: Paperback
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