Mauka to Makai: Hawaiian Quilts and the Ecology of the Islands

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Mauka to Makai: Hawaiian Quilts and the Ecology of the IslandsExploring the intimate relationship between Hawaiian quilts, post colonialism and ecological disaster, research curator Marenka Thompson Odlum traverses Hawaii through the Poakalani quilting group and fifteen extraordinary quilts, newly commissioned by Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. The ahupuaa is an ancient land division system extending from the highest regions of Hawaiis uplands (mauka) to the ocean (makai) representative of the Hawaiian

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