Tapa Cloth Item Number: C1240 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
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.
Item History
What
- Name
- Tapa Cloth
- Identification Number
- C1240
- Type of Item
- tapa cloth
- Material
- mulberry bark and paint
- Manufacturing Technique
- painted and pounded
- Overall
- height 156.5 cm, width 105.5 cm
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Fiji
When
- Ownership Date
- before September 1958
- Acquisition Date
- during September 1958
Other
- Item Classes
- textiles
- Condition
- fair