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'''Tivaevae''' or '''tivaivai''' ({{lang-rar|tīvaevae}}) in the [[Cook Islands]], '''tifaifai''' in [[French Polynesia]], is a form of artistic [[quilting]] traditionally done by [[Polynesians|Polynesian]] women. The word literally means "patches",<ref name="Giuffre2009">{{cite book|author=Katherine Anne Giuffre|title=Collective Creativity: Art and Society in the South Pacific|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=zObDf1mQj20C&pg=PA30|year=2009|publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.|isbn=978-1-4094-9168-2|pages=30–}}</ref> in reference to the pieces of material sewn together. The tivaevae are either made by one woman or can be created in groups of women called ''vainetini''. The ''vainetini'' use this time together to bond, sing and catch up on village news.<ref name="Giuffre2009" /> |
'''Tivaevae''' or '''tivaivai''' ({{lang-rar|tīvaevae}}) in the [[Cook Islands]], '''tifaifai''' in [[French Polynesia]], is a form of artistic [[quilting]] traditionally done by [[Polynesians|Polynesian]] women. The word literally means "patches",<ref name="Giuffre2009">{{cite book|author=Katherine Anne Giuffre|title=Collective Creativity: Art and Society in the South Pacific|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=zObDf1mQj20C&pg=PA30|year=2009|publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.|isbn=978-1-4094-9168-2|pages=30–}}</ref> in reference to the pieces of material sewn together. The tivaevae are either made by one woman or can be created in groups of women called ''vainetini''. The ''vainetini'' use this time together to bond, sing and catch up on village news.<ref name="Giuffre2009" /> |
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Tivaevae are often given on very special occasions either to important visitors, as birthday and wedding gifts or used to cover the body of a loved one who has died. They are often displayed during important events like the traditional boys' hair |
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⚫ | Tivaevae are often given on very special occasions either to important visitors, as birthday and wedding gifts or used to cover the body of a loved one who has died. They are often displayed during important events like the traditional boys' [[First_haircut#Polynesian_boys|hair-cutting ceremonies]], birthdays and weddings.<ref name="Herle2002">{{cite book|author=Anita Herle|title=Pacific Art: Persistence, Change, and Meaning|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=ZgXLIe1lojkC&pg=RA1-PA142|date=January 2002|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|isbn=978-0-8248-2556-0|pages=1–}}</ref> |
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⚫ | By custom, a tivaevae is not measured by monetary value nor production cost. Its value is said to be reflected by the love and patience that the creator(s) have put into making a stunning work of art. Cook Islands women often described their tivaevae as being "something from the heart".<ref name="Boundless2013">{{cite book|author=Boundless|title=Art History, Volume II: 1400-present|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Ra7pAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA418|date=23 August 2013|publisher=Boundless|isbn=978-1-940464-26-8|pages=418–}}</ref> |
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Tivaevae are rarely seen for sale on the islands. The Atiu Fibre Arts Studio on [[Atiu]] is the only place in the Cook Islands where they are commercially produced and available for purchase.<ref name="Hunt2003">{{cite book|author=Errol Hunt|title=Rarotonga & the Cook Islands|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=5akbBi6sso8C&pg=PA49|year=2003|publisher=Lonely Planet|isbn=978-1-74059-083-9|pages=49–}}</ref> |
Tivaevae are rarely seen for sale on the islands. The Atiu Fibre Arts Studio on [[Atiu]] is the only place in the Cook Islands where they are commercially produced and available for purchase.<ref name="Hunt2003">{{cite book|author=Errol Hunt|title=Rarotonga & the Cook Islands|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=5akbBi6sso8C&pg=PA49|year=2003|publisher=Lonely Planet|isbn=978-1-74059-083-9|pages=49–}}</ref> |
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*{{book reference |author=Joyce Darlene Hammond |date=1986 |title=The Journal of American Folklore. Vol. 99, No. 393 |chapter=Polynesian Women and Tīfaifai Fabrications of Identity |url=http://cedar.wwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1010&context=anthropology_facpubs| publisher=American Folklore Society |pages=259-279}} |
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⚫ | *{{book reference |author1=Lynnsay Rongokea |author2=John Daley|date=1992 |title=Tivaevae: Portraits of Cook Islands Quilting |url=https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0908896204|location=Wellington |publisher=Daphne Brasell Associates Press |isbn=0-908896-20-4}} |
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*{{book reference |author=Lynnsay Rongokea|date=2001 |title=The Art of Tivaevae: Traditional Cook Islands Quilting |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vbnWAAAAMAAJ |publisher=University of Hawaii Press}} |
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*{{book reference|author1=Susanne Küchler |author2=Andrea Eimke |date=2010|title=Tivaivai: The Social Fabric of the Cook Islands |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6iCJSQAACAAJ |publisher=Te Papa Press}} |
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Tivaevaeortivaivai (Cook Islands Māori: tīvaevae) in the Cook Islands, tifaifaiinFrench Polynesia, is a form of artistic quilting traditionally done by Polynesian women. The word literally means "patches",[1] in reference to the pieces of material sewn together. The tivaevae are either made by one woman or can be created in groups of women called vainetini. The vainetini use this time together to bond, sing and catch up on village news.[1]
Tivaevae are often given on very special occasions either to important visitors, as birthday and wedding gifts or used to cover the body of a loved one who has died. They are often displayed during important events like the traditional boys' hair-cutting ceremonies, birthdays and weddings.[2]
By custom, a tivaevae is not measured by monetary value nor production cost. Its value is said to be reflected by the love and patience that the creator(s) have put into making a stunning work of art. Cook Islands women often described their tivaevae as being "something from the heart".[3]
Tivaevae are rarely seen for sale on the islands. The Atiu Fibre Arts Studio on Atiu is the only place in the Cook Islands where they are commercially produced and available for purchase.[4]
The tivaevae's origins are uncertain. Rongokea (1992) believes it to be an imported art form, and cites two sets of Christian missionaries in the 19th century as possible origins. While it is known that these female missionaries taught the indigenous women how to sew, it is not certain that they taught them the craft of quilting or making bed coverlets. The appliqué style of tivaevae quilting appears to have been influence by Pennsylvanian German scherenschnitte or Victorian folded paper-cutting traditions.[5] Multiple origins and influences thus seem likely.
As an art form, tivaevae replaced barkcloth production in Tahiti and the Cook Islands by the late 19th century: the function and nature of barkcloth production was transferred to tivaevae.[6]