Rectangular cream bark cloth banner with painted decoration in dark brown, partly on a lighter brown coloured ground. The textile has a foliate border on 3 sides. At the centre of the panel is a framed map of Tongatapu with named places and MABE O TOGA written below. This is surrounded by a flag and individual motifs taken from the flag (apart from a repeated sickle-shape and 3 adjacent circles). The imagery might suggest the commemoration of a state visit.
textile; banner (art); tapa
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