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bag

human history
  • Description

    Kato Pueki. Bag decorated with pueki shells. This is a flat woven bag with shells decorating the entire outside surface. Lou akau (pandanus leaf) strips are woven into a rectangular shape and then fau (hibiscus) fibres are used to knot together the pueki shells in the sia technique around the outside of the bag. There are two handles, woven and cylindrical shape, attached on the inside of the front and back of the kato.

    Both the front and back of the kato have pueki shells arranged to make the manulua design. This kato would have been made for the tourist trade.

  • Place
    Tafahi/Tonga Outliers/Tonga/Pacific
  • Accession Number
    1976.73
  • Accession Date
    1976
  • Other Id

    47580 (ethnology)

  • Department

    Pacific

bag, 1976.73, 47580, Cultural Permissions Apply

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  • bag, 1976.73, 47580, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • bag, 1976.73, 47580, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • bag, 1976.73, 47580, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • bag, 1976.73, 47580, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • bag, 1976.73, 47580, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • bag, 1976.73, 47580, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • bag; 47580; a
  • bag; 47580;
  • bag; 47580; b

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