Mauka to Makai: Hawaiian Quilts and the Ecology of the Islands Conor Barbour 1987 (2017 release)

1987 (2017 release)

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Mauka to Makai: Hawaiian Quilts and the Ecology of the Islands Conor Barbour 1987 (2017 release)Edited by Marenka Thompson Odlum. Published by Common Threads Press. Softcover, 120 pages, Colour, 2024 Exploring 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