Cassettes of local music are available in Fijian stores. At Indian cultural centres performances and lessons are given in traditional Indian music featuring vocal, harmonium, tabla and sitar ensembles. Fiji has been famous for pottery since the Lapita people began trading their wares deep into the South Pacific thousands of years ago. The most famous of the contemporary potters are Dian Tugea and Taraivini Wati, both of whom are featured in the Fiji Museum. Wood carving is still important, but perhaps mostly so because of the steady tourist demand for souvenirs to take home.
Fijian carvers make war clubs, spears and cannibal forks.
Drinking bowls, or tanoas , are still in daily use in Fijian households. Bark cloth, known in Fiji as masi , was traditionally made throughout the Pacific and was usually known as tapa . The cloth is made from the bark of the mulberry tree and its production is very labourious. Traditionally, large and highly decorated masi cloths were used as ceremonial gifts and there was much prestige associated with its ownership. The weaving of pandanus leaves into mats and baskets has a long tradition too.