Tongan Women living outside of their island homeland create and use hand-made, sometimes hybridized, textiles to maintain and rework their cultural traditions in diaspora.
Central to these traditions is an ancient concept of homeland or Nation - fonua - which Tongans retain as an anchor for modern nation-building..
Tongan Women living outside of their island homeland create and use hand-made, sometimes hybridized, textiles to maintain and rework their cultural traditions in diaspora