Women weave together 2

Pandanus is used to make floor mats, baskets and fans; dye was purchased to color some of the fiber. The products were for their own use and was not an economic activity.

Presbyterian Women's Missionary Union enjoyed meeting to weave mats while gathered in a community group.

• Summer 1981

• Larcom, Joan

• Skinner-Jones, Ann

• Women at Work

• Melanesia
• Oceania
• Pacific Islands
• South West Bay (Malakula, Vanuatu)
• Wintua (Malekula, Vanuatu)

• Presbyterian Women's Missionary Union

• Mats
• Palms
• Weaving
• Women

• image

• No linguistic content; Not applicable

• Skinner-Jones, Ann

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