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Mat566/2

The mat is rectangular and natural coloured with two fringes. The mat is woven and the weave is curved. There is a strip of red fabric sewn to one edge of the mat. Attached to the fabric are purple feathers. A long fringe extends past the fabric and feathers. On the opposite edge there is a shorter, squarer fringe.

Culture
Samoan
Material
leaf ?, dye, feather and fibre
Made in
Samoa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Mat566/5

The mat is rectangular and natural coloured with a fringe. There are woven purple double lines on the diagonal across the mat. A fibre fringe of alternating green and orange extends around all four edges.

Culture
Samoan
Material
wool fibre, leaf ? and dye
Made in
Samoa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Mat566/3

The mat is rectangular with designs woven in a natural colour, blue and pink. There are three bands of colour, two blue bands separated by one pink. The design is a diamond woven with two colours contrasting, either natural/blue or natural/pink. There are twelve diamonds, three rows of four, separated vertically by a zigzagging line.

Culture
Samoan
Material
leaf ? and dye
Made in
Samoa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tapa Cloth566/1

The cloth is small and square with four blocks of pattern in dark and light brown. One pair of blocks have a leaf-like breadfruit design inside a circle. The other pair have a cross-shaped design of smaller leaves inside a diamond shape. There are designs in several corners of the block as well.

Culture
Samoan
Material
paper mulberry bark and paint
Made in
Samoa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Mat566/4

The mat is rectangular with designs woven in a natural colour and pink. The design is a diamond woven with the two colours contrasting. There are twelve diamonds, four rows of three, separated by a zigzagging line.

Culture
Samoan
Material
leaf ? and dye
Made in
Tuana'i, Upolu, Samoa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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