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Traditional Tapa Textiles of the Pacific

Mick Pendergrast

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The manufacture of tapa cloth, made from the inner bark of certain trees, is one of the most distinctive products of the cultures of the Pacific islands. In several parts of Melanesia from New Guinea to Vanuatu in Fiji and on most of the high islands of Polynesia from Hawaii to Tahiti, the Marquesas, Tonga, Samoa, Niue, the Cook Islands and New Zealand, the manufacture of barkcloth is an ancient craft which has been practised for thousands of years.

Language: English

Pages: 160

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Release: April 01, 1998

ISBN: 0500279896

ISBN 13: 9780500279892

Traditional Tapa Textiles of the Pacific

Mick Pendergrast

4/5 ( ratings)

The manufacture of tapa cloth, made from the inner bark of certain trees, is one of the most distinctive products of the cultures of the Pacific islands. In several parts of Melanesia from New Guinea to Vanuatu in Fiji and on most of the high islands of Polynesia from Hawaii to Tahiti, the Marquesas, Tonga, Samoa, Niue, the Cook Islands and New Zealand, the manufacture of barkcloth is an ancient craft which has been practised for thousands of years.

Language: English

Pages: 160

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Release: April 01, 1998

ISBN: 0500279896

ISBN 13: 9780500279892

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