This cloth depicting two large ships with sweeping oars is masterfully woven with finely detailed human figures, mythical creatures, birds, and ancestral shrines. The multilayered decks may represent cosmological or social stratification. The cloth was likely used in an aristocratic marriage ceremony, with each of the two red ships representing a clan. During the marriage rites, a single-ship palepai would replace such a double-ship cloth to symbolically represent the merging of the clans.