The film follows a 12-year-old girl named Agnesi Aafi from the Kingdom of Tonga, as she prepares for her cousin Fanny's wedding. Set against the backdrop of Tonga's rich culture, Agnesi shares her ...

GIANT EFFORT: It took 10 Te Papa staff members more than two hours to hang a giant Tongan tapa cloth.KATE WHITLEY Art conservators have found an innovative way to hang a wall-sized tapa cloth ...

Visesio Siasau is a Hamilton-based artist. This month he won the Wallace Arts Trust Paramount Award for his work Tongan Tapa Cloth, and received a six-month residency in New York. Tell us the ...

‘Uhila’s work Mohe involves him sleeping for six hours on a fala (mat) wrapped in ngatu (Tongan tapa cloth) in full view of strangers.

From traditional tapa cloth to the Maori haka, families and friends celebrate graduating students with pride, appreciation, love, and cultural richness, according to three graduates. They shared the ...

Photo / Supplied In July last year, she was invited to Taiwan for a 30-day residency at Village Studio. She also created a tapa cloth for US actor and Samoan-born star Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.

The tapa cloth activity room highlighted the unique motifs and designs from three different nations: the Samoa Islands, Fiji and Tonga.

Tapa cloth can be worn during ceremonies and can be traded. The cloth-making process is very labor-intensive, contributing to its significance in the culture and its association with strength and ...

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At a banquet—4,200 suckling pigs and 2,100 chickens—the Tongan Prime Minister, Queen Salote’s elder son, college-bred Crown Prince Tongi, made a glowing speech of welcome.

In January 2016 a three-year investigation of tapa cloth began, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The project is a collaboration between Kew, the National Museum of Natural History ...

The intricate patterns of the tapa cloth, which Sesi Mausia says could be older than 50 years. Photo: RNZ / Jimmy Ellingham A Tongan tapa cloth presented to prime minister Norman Kirk has come out of ...