Kete

Kete. Bag. For carrying personal items. Large kete woven from rauara (pandanus leaf) strips with dyed-brown/red and dyed-apuraka (giant swamp taro) akamanea (decoration). Kete has patara (serrated) rim. Alternating columns of overlaid dyed-brown/red and dyed-black strips form patterns along upper area of kete known as rau nahe (stepped pattern) in-between two rows of ara veri (bordered rows of twilled twos). Overlaid dyed-black apuraka and natural-coloured rauara strips form chequered parallelograms across the middle of the kete. Zig-zagged diagonal rows of viti (vertical lines of check) fill each dyed-black parallelogram. Two rows of punarua (rows of natural-coloured squares each standing on one corner) sit in-between two rows of ara veri (bordered rows of twilled twos) in the lower area of the kete.