Tivaivai
date: label: Accession Date
content: 19 Mar 2024
name: label: Donor Name
content: Jean T. Chapman-Mason
notes: label: Notes
content: Appliqued tivaivai/tataura (embroidered quilt). Yellow background made from 3 lengths of cotton fabric sewn together. Appliqued with large green leaves, and red, orange, and pink anthurium flowers. Lines and other details hand embroidered with vareigated thread. No batting/backing or quilting. Written on the back of one hem is "AKEKARO KAIRAE MAUKE CIS."
label: Notes
content: According to the donor, this was made by her mother, Akekaro Kairae, towards the end of her life, when she was going blind. She died in June 2015, and it was used at her headstone unveiling in 2016, at Mauke.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Oct 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Mauke, Cook Islands, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cook Islander
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2084041
label: USNM Number
content: E436949-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Quilt
physicalDescription: label: Length - Quilt
content: 248 cm
label: Width - Quilt
content: 202 cm