https://reflectandthrive.com/home daily 1.0 2025-03-14 https://reflectandthrive.com/home/believer-by-matteo-lichtenberg-16yrs monthly 0.5 2024-02-28 https://reflectandthrive.com/home/te-tiibuta-see-boota-and-what-it-means-to-me monthly 0.5 2023-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4655397563de00016d15eb/85ed796f-4b05-4fe2-ad56-587837fc5f4b/image4.jpeg Home - Te Tiibuta ("see-boota") and what it means to me - Make it stand out Having a meal with some friends and family in our grandpa’s maneaba where he was posted as a pastor for a number of years, Abemama, Kiribati. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4655397563de00016d15eb/1e3ce5e3-7581-47ff-9a16-36f36366f720/image1.jpeg Home - Te Tiibuta ("see-boota") and what it means to me - Make it stand out Mum and Dad in the 70’s, mum in one of her many tiibuta. The tiibuta has a distinctive look - wide bands fitted over the shoulders and a squared scoop neck. It is gathered at the chest to puff forward with plenty of space to not ‘cling’. The front chest and shoulder area is where creativity and individuality is expressed, from puckered patterns of smocking detail, or embroidery, detailed trim, to the names of places or loved ones stitched on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4655397563de00016d15eb/38128047-bcfb-413a-983b-53c57c7660f8/image0.jpeg Home - Te Tiibuta ("see-boota") and what it means to me - Make it stand out With my eldest, Eden - at our Kiribati Cultural Camp, Papamoa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4655397563de00016d15eb/a40bb59b-cdd7-491a-a826-214e0e905f68/colour.jpg Home - Te Tiibuta ("see-boota") and what it means to me - Make it stand out Tiibuta kindly gifted by my friend Maria. Pleated, smocked, embroidered, variations on fabric, colour and sleeve design, and all special. I shared with sister Emma and daughter Eden. Can’t describe how much I loved receiving this beautiful collection, from none to twelve in one afternoon!!?? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4655397563de00016d15eb/669b0854-62d5-4385-ae31-d0a8e1c2d543/image3.jpeg Home - Te Tiibuta ("see-boota") and what it means to me - Make it stand out Two of my mum’s sisters Teetang and Orem in the orange/red tiibuta respectively, and two of her brothers Erona and Tionatan at the back. The ataei n aine (young woman) in the yellow was another relative. Sister Emma, cousin Teimira and me. Abemama island Christmas 1982 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4655397563de00016d15eb/e5d9b40b-0918-4feb-9eee-3644635b3fc4/image5.jpeg Home - Te Tiibuta ("see-boota") and what it means to me - Make it stand out Emma and I both had the Onotoa-style tiibuta. Here we are on a boat in Kiribati. Dad standing, me next to mum. My sister and I were five & eight years old here. The crocheted petti-coat worn as a skirt was also a common fixture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4655397563de00016d15eb/826ed90c-1b29-4b11-944e-d20f308957f4/granny.jpg Home - Te Tiibuta ("see-boota") and what it means to me - Make it stand out With my mum, Babera; my granny, Teiro and my two daughters, Eden and Summer. Taken at Tabon Tawaana, Bonriki, Tarawa, July 2005 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4655397563de00016d15eb/f6f87817-6c1f-43e0-90fc-15ceb7b49f07/kainaomata.jpg Home - Te Tiibuta ("see-boota") and what it means to me - Make it stand out Me, Eden, sister in-law Melina and Emma at te kainaomata, July 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4655397563de00016d15eb/2a943faf-a195-4c7a-806e-6811bc836d93/solomon+tiibuta.jpg Home - Te Tiibuta ("see-boota") and what it means to me - Make it stand out Three women, 1973; two in tiibuta. 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