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- Title
- Adorn
- Content partner
- NZ On Screen
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- NZ On Screen
- Description
Throughout the Pacific hair has long been important — not only expressing the owner's youth and beauty but often signifying status, sexual power and family history. This excerpt from documentary Adorn explores the wearing of elaborate head pieces in Samoa, Hawaii and Tahiti, and the so-called Virgin Locks once worn by young Fijian females. Anything associated with the head is considered sacred. Adorn offers a vibrant collection of Pacific womens' stories, as academics and others explain cultu...
- Format
- Video
- Date created
- 2016
- URL
- https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/adorn-2016
- Related subjects
- braid / yolande ah chong / cook islands / mourning / spirituality / tarisi vunidilo / samoa / myth / legend / adornment / virgin locks / taboo / whale bone / shark teeth / mary autagavaia / te maeva nui / nina tonga / ta'ovala / tuiga / alexander turnbull library / lei / hair / hairstyles / pacific arts / pacific culture / samoan culture / fijian culture / tahiti / rarotonga / customs / family history / tongan culture / headdress / tapu / sexuality / dance / creative nz / afro / model
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