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Tapa Cloth1060/80

Rectangular tapa cloth with designs in red-brown and orange-brown on natural coloured ground. The designs consist of wide rows of squares with abstract geometric motifs in red-brown. The space between the motifs is filled with orange-brown lines. Along one back edge a silver ribbon is sewn.

Culture
Fijian
Material
mulberry bark and paint
Made in
Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tapa Cloth1060/16

Small piece of unpainted barkcloth, off-white, with a rectangular shape; two frayed edges.

Culture
Samoan
Material
paper mulberry bark
Made in
Samoa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tapa Cloth1404/13

Tapa covered almost entirely with blocks of decoration on natural coloured ground. Sixteen squares of butterfly-shaped reddish-brown patterns with diamond-shapes in between in each direction.

Culture
Samoan
Material
paper mulberry bark and paint
Made in
Samoa ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HeaddressIe438

Headdress composed of a piece of tapa cloth with rounded corners and decorated with bands of zigzag in red ochre. Woven and wound string with a linear pattern in light grey Job's Tears seeds and segments of black bamboo. The exposed string is rubbed with red, black and yellow pigment (?).

Culture
New Guinea
Material
bamboo grass, paper mulberry bark, fibre, seed and ochre pigment
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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LoinclothIe437

A bark cloth backed beaded panel. The beads are grey and polished and woven with plant fibre string in rows. There is a cross-pattern of black electrical wire pieces. The edges are dyed red, and the top is alternately dyed red, then has grey beads and yellow dye in vertical rows.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
plane wood, dye, paper mulberry bark, root and bamboo grass
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tapa ClothIi4

Tapa cloth with panels divided by dark brown lines. The rectangles are decorated with geometric designs, banner-like designs, and inscriptions in brown. The three smaller rectangles at one end have segments of the same designs.

Culture
Western Polynesian
Material
paper mulberry bark, paint and pigment
Made in
Pacific Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tapa ClothIi5

Tapa cloth with geometric patterns of straight lines and zigzags. Predominant patterns are width-wise with dark brown diagonal lines, zigzags, and triangles.

Culture
Samoan
Material
paint and paper mulberry bark
Made in
Samoa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FanC922

A fan that has an elongated deltoid-like leaf shape with rounded sides. Very fine thin bark strips of red, green, and natural-colour are laced through the palm leaf frame.

Culture
Fijian
Material
paper mulberry bark, wood and palm leaf
Made in
Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketC451

Two braided black, red, and white straps form the handles as well as support the bottom of a woven plant fibre basketry bag which has a thin rectangular shape that tapers downward toward the inward curved bottom.

Culture
Cook Islanders
Material
mulberry bark, palm leaf and fibre
Made in
Rakahanga Atoll, Cook Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tapa ClothC934

The cloth is rectangular with many thin orange-brown lines on a natural coloured background. The cloth is divided into five bordered panels with dark brown lines. In each panel there are two long natural coloured triangles, one at each end. There is also a large, brown, randomly placed dot in each panel; one panel has two dots. The cloth is painted on one side.

Culture
Fijian
Material
mulberry bark, pigment and paint
Made in
Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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