A long, narrow bark cloth, or tapa, with repeated squares in the centre field. The ground is made from bark of the paper mulberry tree. The patterning has been stencilled onto the cream-coloured ground, using black and red-brown pigment. Each large square has a wide, predominantly white diagonal line running from one corner to the other with a linked chain motif in the centre. Either side of it are triangles and two other geometric motifs. The squares are framed by four border patterns, of equal width. One includes small white circles on a red-brown ground. The textile's use may be for clothing, perhaps a skirt.
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