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Drum Beater1448/6 d

Four large cylindrical light brown wood pieces which have smaller cylindrical ends.

Culture
Fijian
Material
wood
Made in
Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Drum Beater1448/6 c

Four large cylindrical light brown wood pieces which have smaller cylindrical ends.

Culture
Fijian
Material
wood
Made in
Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Drum Beater1448/6 b

Large cylindrical light brown piece of wood which narrows at one end to form a handle.

Culture
Fijian
Material
wood
Made in
Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Drum Beater1448/6 a

Large cylindrical light brown piece of wood which narrows at one end to form a handle.

Culture
Fijian
Material
wood
Made in
Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tapa ClothC1253

The cloth is rectangular and 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 red lines. Inside the borders are four horizontal panels. The first panel is wide and has large natural coloured flowers repeated on a red background. The next panel is thin and has natural coloured diamonds on a black background. The next panel is thin and has natural coloured, elongated X’s separated by double lines on a black background. The final panel is wide and has red sunburst designs bordered by triple rows of triangles on a natural coloured background. The cloth is made of two narrow pieces of cloth joined together in the centre.

Culture
Fijian
Material
mulberry bark and paint
Made in
Nalebaleba, Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tapa Cloth1448/9

The cloth is rectangular and natural coloured with stripes of red and blue-gray. The blue-gray stripes are wide with diagonal rows of diamonds left natural coloured and painted red. The blue-gray stripes are flanked by thin red ones. The natural coloured spaces in between the stripes are decorated with borders of small blue-gray lines.

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 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 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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