Story: South Pacific peoples

Robin White and her family lived on the atoll of Tarawa in the early 1980s and 1990s. When a fire destroyed her studio in 1996, her artistic direction changed. With few materials left, she collaborated with the Teitoiningaina Catholic Women’s Training Centre on Tarawa to design and weave a series of mats from pandanus leaves. This mat, with its simple image of a cup of tea, is one from that series. Robin White returned to New Zealand in 1999, after 17 years in Kiribati.

Birthplaces of Pacific Island residents in New Zealand, 2001

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Kiribati dancers

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