{"opacObjectId":"863095","opacCollection":{"opacCollectionId":"1"},"opacObjectFieldSets":[{"identifier":"system_id","opacObjectFields":[{"value":"863095"}]},{"identifier":"accession_no","opacObjectFields":[{"value":"2018.35.2"}]},{"identifier":"accession_date","opacObjectFields":[{"value":"14 Aug 2018","opacObjectFieldAttributes":[{"key":"earliest_date","value":"2018-08-14Z"},{"key":"latest_date","value":"2018-08-14Z"}]}]},{"identifier":"department","opacObjectFields":[{"value":"Pacific"}]},{"identifier":"other_id","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"other_id_type","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"public_access_text","opacObjectFields":[{"value":"Sulieti Fieme’a Burrows and her daughter Tui-Emma Gillies returned to Falevai, Tonga, a village where Sulieti was born. They went with the intention of sourcing bark-cloth there and creating two large works. They arrived in Falevai to discover that the paper mulberry was no longer grown and bark-cloth had not been made there in over 30 years. So Sulieti set about teaching the women of Falevai to grow paper mulberry and care for it through the growing process. The tree doesn’t set seed, so cuttings have to be made, developed and planted. Sulieti went to Nukualofa, Tonga, to purchase sheets of undyed bark-cloth (tapa) and returned to Falevai to further teach the women the traditional method of pasting sheets together and the traditional decorating method Tonga bark-cloth."},{"value":""},{"value":"Tui Gillies designed new kupesi (patterned rubbing boards), which were used in the decoration of these two pieces of bark-cloth. The kupesi are non-traditional of design, material and subject matter. For example the kupesi for Falevai Moe Famili includes anthropomorphic figures, chickens, wharf and pigs; tailor’s lining was used for the base (instead of the traditional palm spathe) however, the patterns were made as traditionally with coconut palm mid-rib, though attached to the base with commercial twine. The kupesi are being gifted along with the purchase of the barkcloth."},{"value":""},{"value":"Tongan ngatu making in Tonga goes back a millennia, and as such has rigid ideals and set of named patterns that primarily focuses on the Tongan monarchy. Sulieti Burrows in collaboration with her daughter, Tui Gillies, show a new level of innovation and sophistication that few  apply to traditional barkcloth making. As well as teaching the men and women in Falevai to grow and beat the barkcloth, Sulieti also showed the women how to create traditional patterned rubbing boards. Walking around the village Sulieti also spied a rubbing work bench, koka’anga in an abandoned house. Sulieti believes this work bench to be over a hundred years old. Sulieti had the bench removed from the house, and lashed woven mats over the working surface of the koka’anga, this helped strengthen it to take the kupesi, patterned rubbing boards. The kupesi are then laid out according to the makers’ aesthetic tastes and lashed to the koka’anga. The koka’anga is usually long enough to pattern a sheet of barkcloth across its entire width. Once one set of patterns have been rubbed the barkcloth is moved over the kupesi just enough to align the next set of patterns alongside the previous rubbings. Once the entire barkcloth has had the patterns rubbed on, the final over painting in darker brown and coloured areas are over-painted."},{"value":""},{"value":"The innovation, history and renewal of tradition that surrounds the making and patterning of these ngatu make these highly significant ngatu."}]},{"identifier":"credit_line","opacObjectFields":[{"value":"Collection of Auckland Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira, 2108.35.2, © Sulieti Fieme\u0027a Burrows and Tui Emma Gillies"}]},{"identifier":"collection","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"provenance_details","opacObjectFields":[{"value":"This bark cloth was exhibited at Mangere Arts Centre in 2018 as part of Auckland Arts Festival."},{"value":"This bark cloth was presented at the Universty of Vienna in 2015."},{"value":"This bark cloth was presented at Museo de America in Madrid in 2015."}]},{"identifier":"provenance_place","opacObjectFields":[{"value":"Mangere/Auckland/New Zealand"},{"value":"Vienna, Austria"},{"value":"Madrid/Spain"}]},{"identifier":"provenance_date","opacObjectFields":[{"value":"2018","opacObjectFieldAttributes":[{"key":"earliest_date","value":"2018-01-01Z"},{"key":"latest_date","value":"2018-12-31Z"}]},{"value":"2015","opacObjectFieldAttributes":[{"key":"earliest_date","value":"2015-01-01Z"},{"key":"latest_date","value":"2015-12-31Z"}]},{"value":"2015","opacObjectFieldAttributes":[{"key":"earliest_date","value":"2015-01-01Z"},{"key":"latest_date","value":"2015-12-31Z"}]}]},{"identifier":"name","opacObjectFields":[{"value":"Koe Koka\u0027anga \u0027ae Fafine Falevai"}]},{"identifier":"description","opacObjectFields":[{"value":"\u0027Koe Koka\u0027anga \u0027ae Fafine Falevai\u0027, (\u0027The fine art of the women of Falevai\u0027), Ngatu, Barkcloth. The design uses five kupesi (printing block patterns) to create the design in a pattern of seven vertical panels with four repetitions of each block on the horizontal axis. There is a border top and bottom (2018.36.10) with white space above/below to a central panel of five blocks printed directly edge to edge. Top and bottom of these are the tree and frangipani design (2018.36.3) which are mirrored, then the tractor and home pattern (2018.6.4) and \u0027KOKA\u0027, gourd and weaving block print (2018.36.7), facing inward toward the central pattern or motif (2018.36.6) of ten female figures around a koka\u0027anga (rubbing work bench)."}]},{"identifier":"other_name","opacObjectFields":[{"value":"The Fine Art of the Women of Falevai\u0027"},{"value":"Ngatu"},{"value":"Bark cloth"}]},{"identifier":"other_name_type","opacObjectFields":[{"value":"translation"},{"value":"Tongan"},{"value":"English"}]},{"identifier":"cultural_origin","opacObjectFields":[{"value":"Tongan"}]},{"identifier":"taxonomic_classification","opacObjectFields":[{"value":"Infomuse Tools \u0026 Equipment Textileworking T\u0026E Bark Cloth"}]},{"identifier":"physical_description","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"object_type","opacObjectFields":[{"value":"Barkcloth"}]},{"identifier":"documentation","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"assoc_event","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"assoc_notes","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"assoc_place","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"assoc_role","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"assoc_date","opacObjectFields":[]},{"identifier":"related_objects","opacObjectFields":[{"value":"863308"},{"value":"916488"},{"value":"916491"},{"value":"916492"},{"value":"916493"},{"value":"916494"},{"value":"916495"},{"value":"916497"},{"value":"916499"},{"value":"916500"}]},{"identifier":"role","opacObjectFields":[{"value":"maker"},{"value":"designer"}]},{"identifier":"date","opacObjectFields":[{"value":"2014-2016","opacObjectFieldAttributes":[{"key":"earliest_date","value":"2014-01-01Z"},{"key":"latest_date","value":"2016-12-31Z"}]}]},{"identifier":"place","opacObjectFields":[{"value":"Falevai/Kapa/Vava\u0027u Group/Tonga/Pacific"}]},{"identifier":"technique","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"style","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"measurement_description","opacObjectFields":[{"value":" L. 3.45m x W. 5.04m."}]},{"identifier":"measurement_reading","opacObjectFields":[{"value":"3450mm"},{"value":"5040mm"}]},{"identifier":"measurement_notes","opacObjectFields":[{"value":"approximate"},{"value":"approximate"}]},{"identifier":"media_materials","opacObjectFields":[{"value":"bark cloth/AAT Materials"}]},{"identifier":"media_materials_description","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"media_materials_notes","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"field_collection_place","opacObjectFields":[{"value":"Auckland/New Zealand"}]},{"identifier":"field_collection_site","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"field_collection_site_description","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"field_collection_method","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"field_collection_date","opacObjectFields":[]},{"identifier":"external_file_name","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"prod_notes","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"subject_category","opacObjectFields":[{"value":"Bark cloth/- PACIFIC SUBJECTS -"},{"value":"Agriculture/- PACIFIC SUBJECTS -"},{"value":"Women/- PACIFIC SUBJECTS -"},{"value":"Contemporary Expression of Identity/- PACIFIC SUBJECTS -"}]},{"identifier":"web_address","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"level_current_record","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"is_part_of","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"member_object","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"period","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"type_status","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"restriction","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"sex","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"display_location","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"scientific_name","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"taxon_rank","opacObjectFields":[{"value":"Primary Term"}]},{"identifier":"genus_species_authority","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"document_pg_number","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"field_collection_notes","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"field_collection_datum","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"field_collection_latitude_precision","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"field_collection_latitude_from","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"field_collection_longitude_precision","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"field_collection_longitude_from","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"locality_description","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"specimen_category","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"storage_method","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"stratigraphy","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"common_name","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"site_altitude_from","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"site_depth_from","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"site_longitude_to","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"site_longitude","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"site_longitude_precision","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"site_latitude","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"site_latitude_precision","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"site_habitat_notes","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"site_collection_method","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"site_collection_date","opacObjectFields":[]},{"identifier":"site_region","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"site_datum","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"last_update","opacObjectFields":[{"value":"11 Nov 2025"}]},{"identifier":"qualifier","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"collection_area","opacObjectFields":[{"value":"Human History"}]},{"identifier":"type_title","opacObjectFields":[{"value":"Koe Koka\u0027anga \u0027ae Fafine Falevai","opacObjectFieldAttributes":[{"key":"title","value":"Koe Koka\u0027anga \u0027ae Fafine Falevai"}]}]},{"identifier":"tags","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"display_room","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"language","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"language_description","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"copyright_notes","opacObjectFields":[{"value":"Auckland Museum holds a non-exclusive licence to use the works for non commercial museum related purposes (please see acquisition paperwork for copy of permission agreement"},{"value":"Auckland Museum holds a non-exclusive licence to use the works for non commercial museum related purposes (please see acquisition paperwork for copy of permission agreement"}]},{"identifier":"isbn_issn","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"content","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"contributor_publisher","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"serial_holdings","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"collection_type","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"volume_number","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"prod_date_notes","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"subject_notes","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"secondary_production_role","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"edition","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"related_object_notes","opacObjectFields":[{"value":"kupesi was used on tapa 2018.36.1-.2"},{"value":"kupesi was used on tapa 2018.36.1-.2"},{"value":"kupesi was used on tapa 2018.36.1-.2"},{"value":"kupesi was used on tapa 2018.36.1-.2"},{"value":"kupesi was used on tapa 2018.36.1-.2"},{"value":"kupesi was used on tapa 2018.36.1-.2"},{"value":"kupesi was used on tapa 2018.36.1-.2"},{"value":"kupesi was used on tapa 2018.36.1-.2"},{"value":"kupesi was used on tapa 2018.36.1-.2"},{"value":"kupesi was used on tapa 2018.36.1-.2"}]},{"identifier":"signature_marks","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"signature_type","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"related_objects_notes","opacObjectFields":[{"value":"kupesi was used on tapa 2018.36.1-.2"},{"value":"kupesi was used on tapa 2018.36.1-.2"},{"value":"kupesi was used on tapa 2018.36.1-.2"},{"value":"kupesi was used on tapa 2018.36.1-.2"},{"value":"kupesi was used on tapa 2018.36.1-.2"},{"value":"kupesi was used on tapa 2018.36.1-.2"},{"value":"kupesi was used on tapa 2018.36.1-.2"},{"value":"kupesi was used on tapa 2018.36.1-.2"},{"value":"kupesi was used on tapa 2018.36.1-.2"},{"value":"kupesi was used on tapa 2018.36.1-.2"}]},{"identifier":"order","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"superfamily","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"family","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"genus","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"subname","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"species","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"te_reo_name","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"classification","opacObjectFields":[{"value":"Bark Cloth/Textileworking T\u0026E/Tools \u0026 Equipment/Infomuse"}]},{"identifier":"copyright","opacObjectFields":[{"value":"All rights reserved"},{"value":"All rights reserved"}]},{"identifier":"site_description","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"object_av_link","opacObjectFields":[{"value":"HumanHistory\\Ethnology\\Pacific Images\\2018\\2018..35.2-a.jpg||2018.35.2; Koe Koka\u0027anga \u0027ae Fafine Falevai; Ngatu, Collection of Auckland Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira, 2108.35.1, © Sulieti Fieme\u0027a Burrows and Tui Emma Gillies|All Rights Reserved"},{"value":"All Rights Reserved"}]},{"identifier":"sketchfab","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"BHL","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"internet_archive","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"wikimedia_commons","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"research_notes","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"flickr","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"flickr_commons","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"pinterest","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"google_arts_and_culture","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"gbif","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]},{"identifier":"flickr_bhl","opacObjectFields":[{"value":""}]}],"relationshipsCollection":{"relationships":[{"relationshipId":"object_primary_maker_id","relatedRecordType":"person","relatedRecords":[{"relatedRecordId":"84060","title":"Sulieti Burrows","slug":"sulieti-burrows","relatedRecordAttributes":[{"identifier":"id","label":"System ID","values":["84060"]},{"identifier":"record_type","label":"Record Type","values":["Person"]},{"identifier":"person_corp_type","label":"Person/Corporate Type","values":["individual"]},{"identifier":"pe_sym_name_fl","label":"Name","values":["Sulieti Fieme\u0027a Burrows"]},{"identifier":"pe_sym_name_tkl","label":"Name","values":["Sulieti Burrows"]},{"identifier":"title","label":"Title","values":[""]},{"identifier":"firstnames","label":"First Name(s)","values":["Sulieti Fieme\u0027a"]},{"identifier":"known_as","label":"Known As","values":["Sulieti"]}]},{"relatedRecordId":"84059","title":"Tui Gillies","slug":"tui-gillies","relatedRecordAttributes":[{"identifier":"id","label":"System ID","values":["84059"]},{"identifier":"record_type","label":"Record Type","values":["Person"]},{"identifier":"person_corp_type","label":"Person/Corporate Type","values":["individual"]},{"identifier":"pe_sym_name_fl","label":"Name","values":["Tui Emma Gillies"]},{"identifier":"pe_sym_name_tkl","label":"Name","values":["Tui Gillies"]},{"identifier":"title","label":"Title","values":[""]},{"identifier":"firstnames","label":"First Name(s)","values":["Tui Emma"]},{"identifier":"known_as","label":"Known As","values":["Tui"]}]}],"totalRelatedRecords":2},{"relationshipId":"object_classification_person_id","relatedRecordType":"person","relatedRecords":[{"relatedRecordId":"43911","title":"Tessa Moriarty","slug":"tessa-moriarty"}],"totalRelatedRecords":1}],"totalRelationships":2},"imagesCollection":{"images":[{"imageId":"650524","imageDerivatives":[{"identifier":"MEDIUM","url":"https://collection-api.aucklandmuseum.com/records/images/medium/396287/74b0aa40728b456df6412b93cced02f9da630597.jpg","width":"400","height":"300"},{"identifier":"SMALL","url":"https://collection-api.aucklandmuseum.com/records/images/small/396287/74b0aa40728b456df6412b93cced02f9da630597.jpg","width":"150","height":"113"}],"cssColors":[],"rawColors":[]},{"imageId":"650535","imageDerivatives":[{"identifier":"MEDIUM","url":"https://collection-api.aucklandmuseum.com/records/images/medium/396288/a8fdf69c57af8960d9a214aa402f0d69088c74da.jpg","width":"300","height":"400"},{"identifier":"SMALL","url":"https://collection-api.aucklandmuseum.com/records/images/small/396288/a8fdf69c57af8960d9a214aa402f0d69088c74da.jpg","width":"113","height":"150"}],"cssColors":[],"rawColors":[]}],"totalImages":2},"slug":"koe-kokaanga-ae-fafine-falevai"}