Maori Bone Hei Matua Hook Cook Islands Handicraft and friendship

and friendship

Model wears size S

• 100% jersey knit

The oldest forms of tanoa fa'iva (bowl for making kava) have four legs and are generally distinguished from Fijian and Tongan kava bowls by the flat horizontal rim between the inner and outer surface of the bowl

Maori Bone Hei Matua Hook Cook Islands Handicraft and friendshipThroughout history, Polynesians have been connected to the ocean. The islands are surrounded by lagoons, bays and open ocean as far as the eye can see. The Maori, like other Polynesians, are master fishermen. Today, they have made bone carving hooks and lures an artform. The hooks, or Hei Matau, are today more ornamental than functional. But they are more than ever, a revered and time honored tradition. This typical Maori design is hand carved in