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Tapa ClothC939

The cloth is rectangular with four bands decorated with a black linear design. The top band has a yellow-white background and outlined black triangles repeated. The second band has a yellow-white background and black vertical lines repeated irregularly. The third and fourth bands are alike and much thicker than the previous two. The bands are divided by black lines into thin vertical spaces, diagonal lines and short horizontal spaces. The spaces are coloured red-brown and black.

Culture
Fijian
Material
mulberry bark and paint
Made in
Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tapa ClothC1255

The tapa cloth is natural in colour with designs painted in black and dark red. There is a narrow border along the edges decorated only with bunches of four black lines. Inside the borders are many square and rectangular panels repeated in a regular pattern. One panel is black horizontal lines with marks in the centre. The next panel is two black triangles, one upside down and one right-side up, joined at the point. The next panel is a natural coloured chain on a black background. Another panel is a natural coloured figure with eight legs on a red background. The last panel is five red circles bordered by red triangles. The cloth is painted on one side but the paint has bled through to the backside.

Culture
Fijian
Material
mulberry bark and paint
Made in
Nalebaleba, Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tapa Cloth2623/47

The cloth is natural coloured, rectangular and decorated with four panels. The repeated design in each of the four panels is a central line with a circle on both ends and four lines extending from the circle. At both ends, the circle and extending lines are outlined. There are two triangles, one on either side of the central line, their tops together and pointing into the line. In each corner are two half circles. Along the inside of the borders of each panel are short lines. All designs have small gray dots along the edges of the thicker reddish-brown lines. The details of each panel are slightly different: the shading of the repeated motif or the background shading or the number of border lines. The cloth is painted on one side.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
paper mulberry bark and paint
Made in
Sirorata, Oro, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tapa Cloth2623/46

The cloth is natural coloured and rectangular with linear designs outlined in black. The design is made up of thick, straight brownish-orange lines decorated on one side with black dots. After every two straight lines there is a motif made of two lines coming together several times to form oval spaces. The motif is decorated with black dots and irregular shapes fill the oval spaces. The cloth is painted on one side but has bled through to the other side.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
paper mulberry bark and paint
Made in
Sirorata, Oro, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tapa ClothC1280

The cloth is natural in colour with designs in dark and light brown. In the centre of the cloth there is a thick brown caterpillar-like figure with many rounded sections, increasing in size across the width of the cloth. There are many lines extending from the sections, much like legs. To one side of the figure, the designs are linear. Thick parallel brown lines have various 'v' patterns attached, some coloured in and some outlined. On the other side of the central figure, the designs are more circular. The parallel brown lines are fewer and have leaf-like patterns attached. In one area there are no lines, but many circles with leaves extending in all directions. The cloth is painted on one side but some paint has bled through to the backside.

Culture
Ni-Vanuatu
Material
paper mulberry bark, paint and pigment
Made in
Erromango, Tafea, Vanuatu
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tapa Cloth2623/49

The cloth is natural coloured and rectangular, decorated with four panels and one side fringe. The repeated motif in each of the four bordered panels is made up of brownish-red lines outlined in black. The motif features long zigzag lines in different formations. Two lines put together form a chain with diamond-shaped openings. One line put along a border creates a row of triangles. One side of the cloth has been repeatedly cut, creating a thick cloth fringe. The cloth is painted on one side.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
paper mulberry bark and paint
Made in
Sirorata, Oro, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tapa ClothC1202 a

The tapa cloth is natural in colour with designs painted in reddish-brown and gray. The thick brown lines are painted in wavy and v-like patterns and cover the width of the cloth. All brown lines are outlined in gray and then surrounded with dotted lines. The lines are painted on only one side of the cloth but much of the brown lines have soaked through to the other side.

Culture
Orokaiva
Material
paper mulberry bark and paint
Made in
Oro, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tapa Cloth1448/32

Tapa cloth in a rectangular shape and painted with seven panels, each with bands of zigzag lines that have double hooked shapes emerging from the points and several v shapes, all in light brown and dark grey. The panels each have a border.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
paper mulberry bark and paint
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tapa Cloth1448/7

Tapa cloth painted with four rows of three sets of two rough triangle shapes with diagonal lines between and around them, each row divided by two bands and a band at each shorter end, all in reddish-brown outlined in black.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
paper mulberry bark and paint
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tapa Cloth1266/1

Tapa cloth in a circular shape painted with a geometric design in black and reddish-brown. At the very centre of the painted design is a five-pointed star inside a circle, which is inside a four-pointed star shape. The design also incorporates diamond shapes, zigzags, and solid black and reddish-brown bands.

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