Na Cagi Ni Veisau marks ten years of the Veiqia Project, which is reviving the traditional tattooing and rituals of iTaukei ...

The Fiji Museum tells the history of the archipelago with artifacts that span 3,700 years. From cannibal forks to shell jewelry to Indian artwork, the items here showcase a long and diverse history.

Fiji Arts Council visual artist, Mere Rasue paints stories of identity, womanhood, and Fijian pride through every brushstroke ...

The traditional practices of 'veiqia' tattooing and 'liku', the wearing of fibre skirts by iTaukei women, when they reach womanhood, have largely been ...

LACMA’s Fiji: Art & Life in the Pacific is the first and most comprehensive exhibit in America on the art of Fiji, an archipelago of more than 300 islands. Mostly on loan from other museums and ...

BUA, FIJI—According to a report in Fijivillage.com, Sepeti Matararaba of the Fiji Museum and Patrick Nunn of Australia’s University of the Sunshine Coast discovered a Lapita site dating to between ...

Composite breastplates formerly worn by paramount chiefs in Fiji (South Pacific) are key artefacts in understanding Fiji’s pre-Christian society. This article discusses the evolution of chiefly ...

WÀSEISEI, ALSO KNOWN AS WÀSEKASEKA; Wàseisei are necklaces made from slivers cut from Sperm Whale teeth. These elaborate, labour-intensive forms of bodily adornment were worn by Fijian chiefs in the ...