THE SAMOAN FINE MAT by M. B. Akuhata-Brown Mrs Akuhata-Brown and her husband recently returned to New Zealand after teaching for several years in Western Samoa. During the period when the Tongans ruled the people of Samoa, the Samoans adopted many of the Tongan arts and crafts, customs and traditions. After the Tongans had left the country many of their customs were still followed there. Among the most important of the crafts which the Tongans introduced was the making of the fine mat, a large, very finely woven object which is one of the most important possessions that a Samoan can own. Its origin is reflected in its name, ‘ie-toga; the first of these two words refers to a cloth, and the word toga, pronounced ‘tonga’, is the name of the island from which it originated.
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Te Ao Hou, March 1966, Page 12
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