Tapa cloth
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Tapa cloth is a barkcloth made in the islands of the Pacific Ocean, primarily in Tonga, Samoa and Fiji, but as far afield as Niue, Cook Islands, Futuna, Solomon Islands, Java, Sulawesi, New Zealand, V
Fijian wedding tapa, 19th century, from the collection of Los Angeles County Museum of Art
This tapa cloth was made in Papua New Guinea. Tapa can be made from the inner bark of paper mulberry or breadfruit trees.
Stripping the bark from the trees in Nomuka
A break from beating the tapa in Nukuʻalofa
Barkcloth
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Barkcloth or bark cloth is a versatile material that was once common in Asia, Africa, and the Pacific. Barkcloth comes primarily from trees of the family Moraceae, including Broussonetia papyrifera, A
Tapa cloth
…Tapa cloth (or simply tapa) is a barkcloth made in the islands of the Pacific Ocean, primarily in Tonga, Samoa and Fiji, but as far afield as Niue, Cook Islands, Futuna, Solomon Islands, Java…
Barkcloth jacket from Kalimantan, Indonesia
Fijian masi
Hawaiian kapa from the 18th century
Women's ceremonial overskirt made from barkcloth from the Bushong people of the Democratic Republic of Congo