Rārangi
Rārangi
Momo Taonga
Ingoa/Taitara
This is not a grass skirt : on fibre skirts (liku) and female tattooing (veiqia) in nineteenth century Fiji
Kaiwaihanga Matua
Kaituku Kōrero/Kaiwhakaputa
Sidestone Press
Wāhi
Rā
2019
Whakaahuatanga ā-Kiko
211 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps, diagrams ; 26 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9789088908125
Reo
English
Fijian
Taumata o te Mauhanga o Nāianei
Bib record
Ahanoa Mema
Huinga Kaupapa
Kōrero o Roto
Fibre skirts, tattooing and the museum: liku and veiqia ; this is not a grass skirt ; skirts, clothing and the body in the Pacific ; the museum and the archive ; liku and veiqia: sources ; veiqia: 'collecting' tattooing ; limitations and aims -- Liku, Veiqia and the adorned body: gendering the body ; rite of passage ; wrapping in status ; assemblage -- collecting liku and veiqia: difference: liku, veiqia and early visitors ; domesticity: clothing transformations, 1830s-1860s -- curiosity: colonial bodies, 1860-1880s -- classifying liku and veiqia: liku: lost in translation ; veiqia as museum objects -- on separations and connections: veiqia: not mrerely museum objects ; re-awakening: the veiqia project ; making visible, making heard, making sense ; beginnings -- list of illustrations and credit lines -- bibliography -- index.
Kuputuhi e Wātea Tūmatanui ana
[Keywords: Tattooed women]
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Dr. Karen Jacobs is Senior Lecturer at the Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, University of East Anglia.
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