NS 3-5 2007 Table of Contents
Pacific Arts Journal
New Series Volume 3-5
2007
HYBRID TEXTILES: PRAGMATIC CREATIVITY AND AUTHENTIC INNOVATIONS IN PACIFIC CLOTH
Special Issue in Honor of Jehanne Teilhet-Fisk
Guest Editors: Ping-Ann Addo, Heather Young Leslie and Phyllis Herda
6 Information about PAA
8 A Note from the President of the Pacific Arts Association
Carol S. Ivory, Washington State University
12 Pacific Textiles, Pacific Cultures: Hybridity and Pragmatic Creativity
Heather E. Young Leslie, University of Hawai’i and MacMillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies and Ping-Ann Addo, University of Massachusetts Boston
21 Biographical Sketch of Jehanne Teilhet-Fisk
Samantha Fisk
Feature Articles:
23 Hawaiian Quilts: Chiefly Self-Representations in Nineteenth-Century Hawai’i
Stacy L. Kamehiro, University of California Santa Cruz
37 Hybrid Identities and the Transference of Hawaiian Quilt Imagery
Phyllis Herda, University of Auckland
46 “How Can We Weave in a Strange Land?” Niuean Weavers in Auckland
Hilke Thode-Arora, Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin
60 Commoner Tongan Women Authenticate Ngatu Pepa in Auckland
Ping-Ann Addo, University of Massachusetts Boston
74 Innovative Tradition: Reshaping the Samoan Art of Siapo (Decorated Barkcloth)
Teri L. Sowell, San Diego State University
88 The Influence of Tongan Ngatu on Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Samoan Siapo
Hilary L. Scothorn, Florida State University and Auckland, New Zealand
94 The Tie that Binds: Siapo, Western Cloth, and Samoan Social Space
Anne E. Guernsey Allen, Indiana University Southeast
104 Stretching the Cloth: Hybrid Meanings, Styles, and Gender Structures in Maisin Barkcloth
Anna-Karina Hermkens, Radboud University
115 “…Like a Mat Being Woven”
Heather E. Young Leslie, University of Hawai’i and MacMillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies
128 ‘Tapa’ and Text: Hybrid Technologies and Pacific (Re)Possession
Paul Sharrad, University of Wollongong