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Large rectangular tapa cloth with geometric patterns in black and light brown against a medium brown background. The decoration alternates between a pinwheel pattern and a design with two circle segments facing away from one another. The designs are organized into a 4 x 6 grid. Three of the designs have been painted with black pigments; the others are decorated solely in light brown. Three sides are bordered by irregularly-edged, un-pigmented tapa.
Rectangular tapa cloth with decorative geometric patterns in dark and light brown against a medium-brown base. The cloth is divided by dark brown lines into three distinct rows. Each row contains a series of eight pairs of triangles in which each pair contains one regular and one inverted triangle. Pairs face each other across a medium-brown line. Each triangle has smaller dark-brown or black triangle inside it, outlined in light brown. The entire cloth has a light-brown border decorated with a black swag pattern.
Large brown tapa cloth decorated with geometric designs in black and light brown. The linear designs create four chevron-like patterns bisected by a column of circles. These circles alternate between pairs of black and medium brown dots. The cloth is organized into five rows of two long rectangles. All four sides are bordered by a black line. Two sides have an addition border of alternating black and medium brown triangles against a light brown base. The vertical line at the cloth’s centre is framed on both sides by the same triangular pattern.
Large rectangular tapa cloth. The base colour of the cloth is stained a medium brown, with unpainted strips of light brown on either end. The cloth is painted with a dark brown, possibly oil based, pigment in squares with repeating patterns of birds, animals, outdoors scenes with a house, tree, sun, moon and star, a Tongan shield motif, and a central panel with triangles, lines, and lettering. At each end is a light brown strip with a bird and number in each square; 18 to 21 at one end, 19 to 22 at the other end.
Large contemporary woven string bag (bilum) decorated with dyed stripes, different types of shells, chicken feathers, wooden beads, branches with seeds, small fan-shapes made of cut-up plastic packages, possum jaws, boar tusks and pieces of tapa cloth.
Colourful headdress with a turtle on mulberry fibre, wrapped around the front of a corrugated cardboard and plastic head ring covered with white fabric and decorative elements. A long blonde hair wig and pink feathers are stitched on to a frame at the back. Around and above the nose of the turtle are bands of green and red metal beads and brown shells, from the top of which project five black fabric-covered wood sticks with white shells and ivory coloured polished coconut shell rings adhered to their lengths.
Small rectangle of tapa cloth with smaller rectangular design on one side painted brown, pale red, and black. Central floral motif with four large brown petals and four smaller black ones is set within a large diamond, with identical opposing sides, which is itself set within a circle filled with short black horizontal lines. On either side, a half circle filled with similar motifs is separated two vertical brown leaves.
Small rectangle of tapa cloth with smaller rectangular design on one side painted brown, pale red, and black. Two large floral motifs with four black petals and four brown leaves, set within circles of concentric brown rings, are separated by two large oblong petals with teeth-like design; half of a similar design are at either end.
Small rectangle of tapa cloth with smaller rectangular design on one side painted brown, pale red, and black. Central floral motif with four black petals and four smaller pale red ones is set within a large diamond, with identical opposing sides, which is itself set within a circle filled with short brown horizontal lines. On either side, a half circle filled with similar motifs is separated two vertical brown leaves with black centres.
Large tapa cloth dyed brown in patches with black painted decoration. The numbers 46 through 50 are evenly spaced down each side and two vertical bands of printed letters are in the middle. Bands of elongated diamond shapes filled with a leaf design separate areas of floating triangular and vegetal designs.