Editing Tuvalu (section)

===Art===
{{Main|Art of Tuvalu}}

The women of Tuvalu use [[cowrie]] and other shells in traditional [[handicrafts]].<ref name="ATP"/> The artistic traditions of Tuvalu have traditionally been expressed in the design of clothing and traditional handicrafts such as the decoration of [[mat]]s and [[Fan (machine)|fan]]s.<ref name="ATP">{{cite web |last=Tiraa-Passfield |first=Anna |title=The uses of shells in traditional Tuvaluan handicrafts |publisher=SPC Traditional Marine Resource Management and Knowledge Information Bulletin No. 7 |date=September 1996 |url=http://www.spc.int/DigitalLibrary/Doc/FAME/InfoBull/TRAD/7/TRAD7_02_Tiraa.pdf |access-date=8 February 2014 |archive-date=22 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222023428/http://www.spc.int/DigitalLibrary/Doc/FAME/InfoBull/TRAD/7/TRAD7_02_Tiraa.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Crochet]] (''kolose'') is one of the art forms practised by Tuvaluan women.<ref name="UNDP1">{{cite web |work=aucklandcouncil. |title=Kolose: The art of Tuvalu crochet |date=March 2015 |url=http://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/EN/newseventsculture/Arts/artscentretheatresgalleries/Documents/kolosecatalogue.pdf |access-date=12 July 2015 |archive-date=23 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923180236/http://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/EN/newseventsculture/Arts/artscentretheatresgalleries/Documents/kolosecatalogue.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref> The design of women's skirts (''titi''), tops (''teuga saka''), [[headband]]s, [[armband]]s, and [[wristband]]s, which continue to be used in performances of the traditional dance songs of Tuvalu, represents contemporary Tuvaluan art and design.<ref name="TPwa">{{cite web |last=Mallon |first=Sean |title=Wearable art: Tuvalu style |publisher=Museum of New Zealand (Te Papa) blog |date=2 October 2013 |url=http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2013/10/02/wearable-art-tuvalu-style/ |access-date=10 April 2014 |archive-date=14 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141114192800/http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2013/10/02/wearable-art-tuvalu-style/ |url-status=live}}</ref> The [[material culture]] of Tuvalu uses traditional design elements in artefacts used in everyday life such as the design of [[canoe]]s and [[fish hook]]s made from traditional materials.<ref name="K1931">{{cite book |last1=Kennedy |first1=Donald |title=The Ellice Islands Canoe |url=http://www.jps.auckland.ac.nz/document//Memoirs_%28Additional%29/No._9%3A_Field_Notes_on_the_Culture_of_Vaitupu%2C_Ellice_Islands%2C_by_D._G._Kennedy/The_Ellice_Islands_Canoe%2C_p_71-100/p1 |year=1931 |publisher=Journal of the Polynesian Society, Memoir no. 9 |pages=71–100 |access-date=19 April 2019 |archive-date=6 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221006034408/https://www.jps.auckland.ac.nz/document/Memoirs_%28Additional%29/No._9%3A_Field_Notes_on_the_Culture_of_Vaitupu%2C_Ellice_Islands%2C_by_D._G._Kennedy/The_Ellice_Islands_Canoe%2C_p_71-100/p1 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="GKTGS1">{{cite book |last1=Gerd Koch (translated by Guy Slater) |title=The Material Culture of Tuvalu |year=1981 |publisher=University of the South Pacific |location=Suva |id=ASIN B0000EE805}}</ref>

In 2015, an exhibition was held on Funafuti of the art of Tuvalu, with works that addressed [[climate change]] through the eyes of artists and the display of ''Kope ote olaga'' (possessions of life), a display of the various artefacts of Tuvalu culture.<ref name="AoT">{{cite web |last=Takemoto |first=Shoko |title=The Art of Tuvalu – Climate Change through the eyes of artists in Tuvalu |publisher=exposure.co |date=4 November 2015 |url=https://shoko.exposure.co/the-art-of-tuvalu |access-date=23 December 2015 |archive-date=23 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151223080848/https://shoko.exposure.co/the-art-of-tuvalu |url-status=live}}</ref>