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  • Kupu whakaahua

    Tablemat. This is a place mat, double square star shaped, and woven from dark lou akau. Strips of the same width lou akau have been woven to create this star shaped table mat, it is light brown in colour and the surface is slightly polished. Table mats like this are often made for tourist trade and to sell at the local markets and roadsides by local village women in Tonga.

  • Wāhi
  • Accession Number
    1994.52.2
  • Rā Tāpiringa
    05 Mar 1994
  • Tohu Tuakiri Kē

    54719 (ethnology)

  • Wāhanga
mat, 1994.52.2, 54719, Cultural Permissions Apply

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