Tapa Cloth Item Number: C1254 from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

The cloth is narrow and natural in colour with designs painted in black and dark red. There is a narrow border along the edges decorated with bunches of four black lines. Inside the borders are many square and rectangular panels repeated in a regular pattern. One panel is five red starbursts on a natural coloured background surrounded by red triangles. The next panel is three thin vertical bands of black and natural coloured triangles and other geometric designs. The next panel is natural coloured flowers on a red background. Another panel is a natural coloured bouquet with a bow on a red background. The cloth is made of two narrow pieces of cloth joined together in the centre.