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Maori fine mats.
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These women would teach.
In polynesia the raw materials were coconut and pandanus leaves and in new zealand the indigenous flax formed a stronger and more.
The value of an ie tōga fine mat is derived from the knowledge skill patience and love that go into its making.
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Floor mats sleeping mats baskets and other accessories formed a necessary part of the household equipment in tropical polynesia and in temperate new zealand.
Maori weaving mats baskets and plaiting.
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The prepared fibre of the new zealand flax phormium tenax became the basis of most clothing.
He noted that the maori taonga those items that so it seemed to him are given with and circulate because of the hau could be linguistically cognate to the famous samoan fine mats ie toonga or just toonga pronounced tōnga with a long o.
In the past there were many accomplished fine mat makers.
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Some fine mats take years to complete.
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Almost every village had a designated spot fale lalaga where women would gather to make these mats.
Noun coarse floor mat placed under fine mats.
For a look at historic maori art pieces visit museums like te papa and the auckland museum.
In an excellent analysis tcherkezoff 1997 193 223 clarifies the way in which fine mats were understood by mauss pointing out that mauss assumed that samoan tōga maori taonga and tahitian taoa were cognate and expressed a whole malayo polynesian category of sacred gift.
