The Bond of Time is an epic love poem that has been described by Jeffrey Paparoa Holman as “a precocious masterpiece” and “one of the great poems of Oceania produced in the last century.” John Puhiata
This book is an inspired, experimental and personal encounter with a brilliant but neglected art form, the painted hiapo of Niue island in central Polynesia. Most known pieces of hiapo (barkcloth or t
