Members of one Fijian community, for example, argued that the new Air Pacific brandmark contains designs, known as masi bola ni Cakaudrove, which are sacred to their community. As one community ...

Makereta Matmosi with her Fiji Airways Masi design This builds towards the ‘Teteva’ at the centre of the Masi, which is used on the Fiji Airways identity. This features crosses at the four corners to ...

Titled “Made in Oceania: Tapa – Art and Social Landscape”, the exhibition will feature a Fijian artist who deals with the airline attempt to trademark the masi motifs. The museum has requested ...

mythology and craft of masi, or Fijian tapa cloth. Masi is also the remarkable love story of Artistic Director Nina Nawalowalo’s parents. A Fijian chief and an English nurse, they met in 1950s ...