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    "title": "Irony and Ephemerality: Siapo in the Exhibition Atalilo: Motifs in Sāmoan Material Culture (2024)",
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    "abstract": "Atalilo: Motifs in Sāmoan Material Culture\n (2024–27) is the first exhibition staged in the newly established Ōfaga o Saʻliʻiliga National University of Sāmoa Research Museum. The exhibition explores the myriad uses of motifs across six genres of Sāmoan material culture: tatau (tattooing), afa (sennit lashing), ʻele (pottery), maʻa (petroglyphs), laʻau (wood carvings), and siapo (barkcloth). While displays of each genre had its own challenges in presentation, design, and curation, the most complex was the section on siapo. This article \nbegins with an introduction to siapo’s cultural and historical significance and its contemporary production and use. It then\n \noutlines emerging institutional and cultural ironies in attempting to display nineteenth-century siapo in contemporary Sāmoa—issues that prompt deeper questions about the urgent need to recognize and support both the living and ephemeral dimensions of Sāmoan heritage.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives  4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY-NC-ND 4.0",
        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "siapo, barkcloth, museums, living heritage, ephemerality, continuity, measina, Sāmoa, exhibitions, National University of Sāmoa Centre for Sāmoan Studies, Übersee-Museum Bremen, cultural heritage, c.."
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            "first_name": "Fonotī",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Dionne",
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    "date_submitted": "2025-10-31T07:29:18-07:00",
    "date_accepted": "2025-10-31T07:29:18-07:00",
    "date_published": "2024-12-31T16:00:00-08:00",
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