A Samoan woven fibre mat decorated with a border of red parrot(?) feathers. Approx dimensions: 61 ½ x 65 in. c.1930.The mat is heavily creased because it has been kept in a suitcase for the past seventy years or so. This also accounts for its generally good state of preservation. It came from the estate of a local lady who had been a missionary in Samoa in the late Twenties/ early Thirties. The palm fibres are densely ...click for details
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