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Creating a New Tradition: Quilting in Tonga

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From Uncoverings 2000, Volume 21 of the Research Papers of the American Quilt Study Group

2000

By: Herda, Phyllis S.

Phyllis S. Herda, a senior lecturer in women's studies at the University of Auckland, has lived in New Zealand since 1981. Her academic work in anthropology and history centers around gender, power, and colo­nialism, and she holds degrees from colleges in Arizona, New Zealand, and Australia. Phyllis is currently studying women's quilting in Poly­nesia under a Marsden Fund grant from the Royal Society of New Zealand.