i Lalakai

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i Lalakai. Mat for serving food, flat, rectangular in shape and woven from drauniniu (coconut leaf) including sasa (coconut leaf midrib). Commencement from sasa and woven out in twill. Finished in a braid with loose long unwoven ends. Six braids, each tali tolu (3-ply), woven from sasa.

Nama tāpiringa: 1924.25 Whakahounga o Mua: 13 May 2025

Ingoa Kē

Mat (English)

Wāhi

Fiji

Accession Number

1924.25

Rā Tāpiringa

1924

Tohu Tuakiri Kē

9509 (ethnology)

Wāhanga

Pacific

Whakaahuatanga ā-Kiko

I lalakai. Mat for serving food, flat, rectangular in shape and woven from drauniniu (coconut leaf) including sasa (coconut leaf midrib). Commencement from sasa (midrib) and woven out in twill. Finished in a braid with loose long unwoven ends. Six braids, each tali tolu (3-ply), woven from sasa. Brittle. "9509 FIJI" is written in black ink on the sasa. Fair condition overall.

i Lalakai

i Lalakai

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i Lalakai

i Lalakai

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