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People & daily life.

Explore craft, dress, gathering, performance and hair through 5 illustrated scenes.

Three unnamed adults working with coconut fibre and braided cord.

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Rope-making

Three unnamed adults working with coconut fibre and braided cord.

Te Papa describes magimagi as cord made from coconut-husk fibre, used for fastening and canoe lashings. This generated study interprets the supplied photograph; it does not establish a precise local technique or the purpose of its large rope rolls.

Enhanced scenes with unnamed people.

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Rope-making

Three unnamed adults working with coconut fibre and braided cord.

Enhanced · cultural review required

Dimau Group