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Ili

human history
  • Other Name

    Ili tokelau (Tokelauan)

    Ili tū (Tokelauan)

    Fan (English)

  • Description

    Itū ili. Segment(ed) fan. Ili are made in different shapes and sizes. The materials used to make them, as well as any embellishments, vary from natural to synthetic and/or a combination of the two. Ili can be used domestically as well as personally and as an accessory. This ili is made from tuāniu (coconut midrib), fenū (epidermis of young coconut leaf), dyed laukie (a type of pandanus)) of green, blue and purple.

    It is woven in a triangular shape, with the outside edge decorated with fulumoa (chicken feathers). The handle is long, thin and cylindrical in shape and wrapped in woven laufala (pandanus).

  • Place
    Fakaofo/Tokelau Islands/Polynesia/Pacific
  • Accession Number
    1966.208
  • Accession Date
    1966
  • Other Id

    37994 (ethnology)

  • Department

    Pacific

fan, 1966.208, 37994, Cultural Permissions Apply

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  • fan, 1966.208, 37994, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • fan, 1966.208, 37994, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • fan, 1966.208, 37994, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • fan, 1966.208, 37994, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • fan, 1966.208, 37994, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • fan, 1966.208, 37994, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • fan, 1966.208, 37994, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • fan, 1966.208, 37994, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • fan, 1966.208, 37994, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • fan, 1966.208, 37994, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • fan, 1966.208, 37994, Cultural Permissions Apply

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