right|thumb|A just married couple still in their wedding taovala right|thumb|Different types of taovala worn at funerals A taovala is an article of Tongan dress, a mat wrapped around the waist, worn by men and women, at all formal occasions, much like the tie for men in the Western culture. The taovala is also commonly seen among the Fijian Lau Islands, and Wallis island, both regions once heavily influenced by Tongan hegemony and cultural diffusion.
right|thumb|A just married couple still in their wedding taovala right|thumb|Different types of taovala worn at funerals A taovala is an article of Tongan dress, a mat wrapped around the waist, worn by men and women, at all formal occasions, much like the tie for men in the Western culture. The taovala is also commonly seen among the Fijian Lau Islands, and Wallis island, both regions once heavily influenced by Tongan hegemony and cultural diffusion.
== Origins ==
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).