• Results (79)
  • Search

Item Search

The item search helps you look through the thousands of items on the RRN and find exactly what you’re after. We’ve split the search into two parts, Results, and Search Filters. You’re in the results section right now. You can still perform “Quick searches” from the menu bar, but if you’re new to the RRN, click the Search tab above and use the exploratory search.

View Tutorial

Log In to see more items.

Tapa ClothC1660

The front of the beige cloth has eleven bands of a square grid-like pattern. The lines of the square pattern are both light and dark red, painted in blood. The back of the cloth is plain except for a band of three wavy lines.

Culture
Australian
Material
mulberry bark and human blood ?
Made in
Australia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Tapa ClothC1202 b

Lines radiating from circles; red and black on natural ground.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
paper mulberry bark and paint
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Tapa ClothC1202 c

A long strip of coiled bark cloth dyed with yellow, black, and red vegetable dyes, in vertical strips alternating with natural background.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
paper mulberry bark and paint
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Tapa ClothC1324

The cloth is rectangular, long and narrow and dyed brown. There are no finished edges or designs.

Culture
Oceania
Material
paper mulberry bark and pigment
Made in
Pacific Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Tapa ClothC931

Mulberry bark cloth. The cloth is rectangular in shape with uneven, ragged edges. The cloth is undecorated and brown-orange in colour.

Culture
Solomon Islands
Material
paper mulberry bark and pigment
Made in
Solomon Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Tapa ClothC1236

Tapa cloth painted with a design in brown with black lines dividing the design into boxes filled with exes and lines as well as some outlined Arabic numbers and letters.

Culture
New Guinea ?
Material
paper mulberry bark
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Tapa ClothC1240

The cloth is rectangular and natural coloured with painted stripes and two fringed edges. There are 11 green lines across the cloth. Every second green line is paired with a blue line. Two of the edges are cut in a triangle fringe and decorated with two green triangles, one inside the other. Only one side of the cloth is painted.

Culture
Fijian
Material
mulberry bark and paint
Made in
Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Tapa ClothC1241

Tapa cloth with brown and black stamped designs on natural ground. The design alternates squares of two patterns: a large brown circle and black triangles. One end has a thick border of geometric and abstract motifs separated by brown lines. The edge is also cut in a toothed pattern.

Culture
Fijian
Material
mulberry bark and paint
Made in
Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Tapa ClothC1246

Tapa cloth that is natural in colour, long and narrow. There is a join in the middle where the two pieces were joined together. The cloth is undecorated.

Culture
Fijian
Material
mulberry bark
Made in
Nalebaleba, Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Tapa ClothC1247

Small, rectangular light brown tapa cloth made of beaten inner mulberry bark.

Culture
Fijian
Material
mulberry bark
Made in
Nalebaleba, Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record