Mat fala
leaf strips, Tonga, l. 192 cm, w. 134 cm, Hanover 1854, No. 9
Forster Register C.26: ‘a mat’
The mat is similar in weave and motif to the Göttingen mat Oz 141. It features alternating light brown and unpatterned, and dark brown patterned diagonals. (cf. Kaeppler 1978a: 217) Inken Köhler, Ulrike Rehr, Gundolf Krüger
Source
Kaeppler, Adrienne L, ‘Artificial Curiosities’ Being An Exposition of Native Manufactures Collected on the Three Pacific Voyages of Captain James Cook RN [Exhibition catalogue], Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu, 1978a.
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