Mats & Fabrics

• Photograph of fine Tobi mat, made on Tobi about 1975, photographed in Honohina, Hawaii in January 2000.

     

• From the Peabody Museum in Salem, Massachusetts:  "A sash worn by duskie beauties, Lord North Island, Pacific Ocean, made from coconut frond." Photograph by Peter Black, 1979.

  

• Men's loin cloth (Eilers, 1936: plate 3)

• Coconut basket and fire fan (Eilers, 1936: plate 4)

  
  

• Cloth woven from banana (?) or hibiscus (?) fiber by Tobi school kids under the direction of old women, sometime in the 1970s.  The dye is duplicating fluid.  Photograph by Barbara Black.

      

   

• Mats and Sashes from the Tobi Island Collection, Tübingen University. Sammlung des Instituts für Ethnologie der Universität Tübingen. All images and information reproduced here with kind permission of the ethnographic collection, Tübingen University.
  
  Photographs by Barbara W. Black, May 2007. Large tif files are available for each image. Please request copies by email and we will send them to you.

Tübingen University ethnographic collection description Inventarnummer A26: Mat
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Tübingen University ethnographic collection description Inventarnummer A27: Mat
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Tübingen University ethnographic collection description Inventarnummer A28: Mat
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Tübingen University ethnographic collection description Inventarnummer A32: Sash
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Tübingen University ethnographic collection description Inventarnummer A33: Sash
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Tübingen University ethnographic collection description Inventarnummer A34: Sash
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Tübingen University ethnographic collection description Inventarnummer A35: Sash
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Tübingen University ethnographic collection description Inventarnummer A36: Sash
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Tübingen University ethnographic collection description Inventarnummer A37: Sash
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