Tivaivai
date: label: Accession Date
content: 19 Mar 2024
name: label: Collector
content: Akekaro Kairae
label: Donor Name
content: Jean T. Chapman-Mason
notes: label: Notes
content: Ttivaivai (quilt) with large reverse-applique design. Light pink backing fabric, with a large maroon-colored rectangle appliqued on top. The maroon piece has an almost-symmetrical pattern of shapes and lines cut into it and sttiched down, including stars, plants, sun, and moon. One edge is folded over and lined with velcro (for hanging on a wall?) One edge has writing in pen: "Ake Kairae, Mauke".
label: Notes
content: Maker unknown. According to the donor, this tivaiva iwas collected by her mother, Akekaro (Ake) Kairae. "[My mother] often made things to display at the Mauke annual Vainetini's (Women's) Expo, and she bought items from it that she liked... The pattern is Pharoah's Dream (as interpreted by Joseph, from the Bible), a common motif especially in New Zealand in the 1980s. Likely the pattern developed there... no one in Cook Is. knows what wheat sheaves look like."
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: E436950-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Quilt
physicalDescription: label: Length - Quilt
content: 205 cm
label: Width - Quilt
content: 147.5 cm