The Pacifica Mamas, an acclaimed collective of Pacific heritage artists, has woven the ei out of upcycled plastic as a gift to Auckland.
Formed in the late 1980s, the Pacifica Mamas are all the first-generation pacific immigrants to New Zealand, originally from island nations including the Cook Islands, Samoa, Tuvalu, Tonga, Tokelau, Kiribati and Niue.