Foufili Halagigie was born in 1936 in Tamakautoga, Niue.[1][2] She later settled in Ōtāhuhu, a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand.[3][4]
Since 1998, she has been a member of the Auckland-based handicrafts group Falepipi he Mafola.[1][5] She has been described as "one of the best master weavers" of the group.[1] Some of her work features the tia weaving technique, and she uses materials available in New Zealand such as raffia and kaniu (coconut leaf ribs).[3]
In 2009, she was honored alongside the rest of Falepipi he Mafola when the group received a Pacific Heritage Art Award in the Arts Pasifika Awards.[1] In 2012, a lili fakamanaia (wall hanging) made by Halagigie was commissioned for the exhibit Home AKL: Artists of Pacific Heritage in Auckland at the Auckland Art Gallery, and it was subsequently retained as part of the museum's collection.[1][3][5][6][7]
Halagigie's son and her daughter, Mokahele Halagigie, are also weavers as part of Falepipi he Mafoa, and her daughter has worked to encourage the use of recycled plastic in Niuean weaving.[1]
