A long and narrow piece of bark cloth, or tapa, with geometric decoration. The textile ground is made from bark of the paper mulberry tree. The patterning has been stencilled onto the cream-coloured bark cloth ground, using mainly black and some red-brown pigment. There are two large areas of decoration where triangles, diagonals and stars are used together to form a composite square pattern. The rest of the textile is decorated with bands of diamonds and zig zag patterns. One end of the textile has red diagonal lines with feathered lines in the shape of triangles. Its use may be for clothing, perhaps a skirt.
textiles (function unknown); tapa; textile (function unknown); barkcloth
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