Dying Toya's Mats 5 of 5

Toya on the extreme right with a headband holds one end of the mat being dyed. Anthropologist Lissant Bolton defines 'singo' as a "textile used to signify achieved rank or status" in Unfolding the Moon: Enacting Women's Kastom in Vanuatu (2003). 'Longo' is the ceremonial pudding or laplap made for the occasion. Both the pudding and the mats are "cooked."

• October 23, 1982

• Critchlow, Margaret
• Rodman, William L.

Folder: 1982-Series2 / File: 82 Dying Toya's Mats 6

• East Ambae Island (Vanuatu)
• Longana village (Vanuatu)
• Melanesia
• Oceania
• Pacific Islands
• Waileni village

• Dyes and dyeing
• Mats

• image

• No linguistic content; Not applicable

Shared Shelf: 24355748

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• Margaret Critchlow and William Rodman Papers
• Margaret Critchlow Papers

• Critchlow, Margaret
• Rodman, William L.

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