Barkcloth made in the island cultures of the Pacific Ocean
For other uses, see Tapa.
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Wedding Tapa, 19th century, from the collection of Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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, New Zealand, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea and Hawaii (where it is called kapa). In French Polynesia it has nearly disappeared, except for some villages in the Marquesas.
Tapacloth (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...
of Europe, the United States, and Africa. Other common names include tapacloth tree. Paper mulberry was used among ancient Austronesians in making barkcloth...
beating tapacloth to Pitcairn. They adapted the process to reflect the natural materials they had access to. During her lifetime, she gave tapa that she...
Look up tapa, Tapa, tapá, tapà, tapas, or tapás in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tapa, TAPA, Tapas or Tapasya may refer to: Tapas (website), a webtoon...
puletaha are usually associated with a tapacloth or waist-mat called ta'ovala and some Samoans still wear a tapacloth vala sash in similar fashion (though...
and published in both English and Pitkern. As an artist, she works with tapacloth, a Polynesian tradition. She has also published a cookbook featuring Pitcairn...
kapa by themselves. Tapacloth, similar fabric made elsewhere in Polynesia Kaeppler, Adrienne L. (1980). Kapa: Hawaiian Bark Cloth. Honolulu: Boom Books...
or a black singlet and rugby shorts. Fiji – Sulu, chamba (sulu i ra), tapacloth (called masi), i-sala, kuta (specifically in the village of Dama, Bua...
in the making of pottery. The making of Tapacloth, or (masi), is another craft associated with women. Tapa is made from the bark of the paper mulberry...
decorated bark cloth siapo while men give woodworking items and red feathers. Bark cloth, called siapo in Samoa (similar to the Fijian tapacloth called masi)...
dark and durable wood, is preferred for carving. Islanders also produce tapacloth and painted Hattie leaves. The major sources of revenue have been the...
high-resolution digitised version in Cambridge Digital Library Digitised Tapacloth catalogue held at Auckland Libraries Cook's Pacific Encounters: Cook-Forster...
Americans. In Hawaii, the native raspberry called 'akala' was used to dye tapacloth with lavender and pink hues, whereas berries from the dianella lily were...
a custom dress by Samoan designer Nancy Elizabeth that incorporated a tapacloth corset and spoke Samoan to actor Dwayne Johnson. She has a malu, a tattoo...
around the waist. For formal occasions or performance, decorations of tapacloth, woven flax or other material may be layered around the waist over the...
known as the "tuiga." Coconut midribs ("tuaniu") wrapped with strips of tapacloth were secured to a faceplate ("lave") made of turtle shell in such a way...
loincloth from the waist down made of bark-fibre, similar to the Polynesian tapacloth. This loincloth reached above the knees and it often had decorative patterns...
bark textile, used by indigenous people in the Pacific Northwest Tapacloth, a cloth made from the bark of the paper mulberry tree Amate, a Mesoamerican...
It also serves as a traditional offering in rituals. Highly detailed tapacloth art is a specialty of Wallis and Futuna. Uvea Museum Association is a...
Teraura was also a tapa maker, and there is a record of her giving a piece of coloured cloth to a sailor in 1833. It is likely this cloth was dyed with the...
who did much of his work in French Polynesia and did important work on Tapacloth. Charleux was born in Paris, but spent much of his childhood in Ivory...
writer John Pule. Author of The Shark That Ate the Sun, he also paints tapacloth inspired designs on canvas. In 2005, he co-wrote Hiapo: Past and Present...
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