463 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm.

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INTRODUCTION -- 1 CRAFT AND ISLAND NATIONS -- The ancestors of the arts / Tevita ʻŌ Kaʻili -- No tangaroa ko tēna marae : connecting with Oceania / Julie Paama-Pengelly -- The exchange of kula feathers / Tarisi Vunidilo -- Pulotu, Hawaiki and Lapita / Hūfanga ·*Ōkusitino Māhina.

2 CRAFT ON BOARD -- Cook samplers / Vivien Caughley -- Blacksmithing on Guam / Michael Bevacqua -- The ancestry of Te Aute / Nikau Gabrielle Hindin -- An Iconic collectible / Donald Kerr.

3 CRAFT AND BELIEF -- Craft and 'civilisation', at the LMS Museum / Chris Wingfield -- Identifying early colonial-made furniture / William Cottrell -- The art of Tuvalu crochet: kolose / Maroma T-Pole -- A Victorian gothic masterpiece / Ann Calhoun -- 'God in their luggage' / Julie Adams.

4 CRAFT AND THE AUTHENTIC -- Needlework in the New Zealand education system / Stella Lange -- St Barnabasʻ Chapel, Norfolk Island / Anna Calhoun -- Polynesian corpuscles : tracing cultural stratificaion through craft / Ioana Gordon-Smith -- From furniture restoration to faking taonga / Elizabeth Cot...

5 CRAFT AND TOURISM -- Souvenirs of the ʻEighth Wonder of the Worldʻ / Richard Wolfe -- Crafting kapa haka / Tryphena Cracknell -- A novelty barometer / Marguerita Hill -- The Coral Route / Lynette Townsend -- The coconut shell as art object / John Perry -- Māori culture and the contemporary scene...

6 CRAFT AND THE MODERN -- Making do in hard times / Rosemary McLeod -- 'Something to see' : Women's Institutes / Claire Regnault -- Guilds and societies in craft practice / Helen Schamroth -- Theo Schoon : Bauhaus to our house / Andrew Paul Wood -- Joseph Churchward's Handcrafted Typefaces / Safua A...

7 CRAFT AND BELONGING -- The craft of punk / Simon Swale -- The permanent crucible / Benjamin Lignel -- Craft and conceptual art / Warren Feeney -- Bone stone shell across the Ditch / Julie Ewington -- What Planet do you come from? / Rosanna Raymond -- New Zealand Wearable Art and the craft conundru...

8 CRAFT IN THE CONTEMPORARY -- Street craft in a cracked city / Reuben Woods -- From craft practitioners to designer-makers / Michael Smythe -- Crafting make believe / Claire Regnault -- Contemporary quilting communities / Jane Groufsky -- Slow fashion and craft activism / Natalie Smith -- More than...