Rebecca Kulimoetoke is an artist and teacher from Wallis, in the French overseas territory of Wallis and Futuna.[1][2] An expert in tapa cloth, she is also a visual artist, with her painting featured in exhibitions and on stamps.[2] She donated several of her works to the Musée du Vivant-AgroParisTech, where they are displayed with objects loaned by Uvea Museum Association.[3] In 2015 her work was displayed as part of Dordogne's Histoire de passages festival.[4] She studied at Jean Monnet University before returning to Wallis.[3]

Rebecca Kulimoetoke
NationalityFrench
Known forStamp design

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Kulimoetoke's paintings have been used on several stamps issued by Wallis and Futuna, including: 'Seaside' (200 Fr - 2006),[5] commemorating World Youth Day (350 Fr - 2018),[6] to mark the centenary of the birth of Lavelua Tomasi Kulimoetoke (600 Fr - 2018),[7] for Bastille Day (500 Fr - 2018).[8]

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  1. ^ "Les enseignants en formation sur la pédagogie numérique". Wallis-et-Futuna la 1ère (in French). Retrieved 2022-04-11.
  2. ^ a b "identification du "Tapa" à Wallis & Futuna – ArtsPlaSite-Austral" (in French). Retrieved 2022-04-11.
  3. ^ a b Paris, Guillaume. "Un partenariat culturel avec Wallis et Futuna - AgroParisTech". www2.agroparistech.fr (in French). Retrieved 2022-04-11.
  4. ^ Histoire de passage (2015)
  5. ^ "Stamp: Mata tai (Seaside) Rebecca Hoatau Kulimoetoke (Wallis and Futuna) (Painting) Mi:WF 929,Sn:WF 621,Yt:WF 659,Sg:WF 894,WAD:WF009.06". Colnect. Retrieved 2022-04-11.
  6. ^ "Wallis et Futuna - Emissions 2018 - Le Cagou - Club philatélique de Nouvelle-Calédonie". www.cagouphila.nc. Retrieved 2022-04-11.
  7. ^ "Wallis et Futuna - Emissions 2018 - Le Cagou - Club philatélique de Nouvelle-Calédonie". www.cagouphila.nc. Retrieved 2022-04-11.
  8. ^ "Wallis et Futuna - Emissions 2018 - Le Cagou - Club philatélique de Nouvelle-Calédonie". www.cagouphila.nc. Retrieved 2022-04-11.

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