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Barkcloth
Tapa or barkcloth made by the women of the Pacific islands for thousands of years are one of the few forms of predominantly female artistic expression from Polynesia and Melanesia. It is also a vehicle of creative expression and social cohesion. In western Polynesia, tapa was decorated with dynamic, abstract and symbolic patterns of considerable size, and it was produced on a large scale for use o…
Creator
- Fiji
Type of item
- bark paintings
Medium
- bark (plant material)
- Bark
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Rights
- Museu de Cultures del Món
Creation date
Places
- Fiji
Identifier
- MCM 6 10
- http://hdl.handle.net/10970/objects/H622416
Extent
- 365 x 83 cm
Format
- batanada
Providing country
- Spain
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2015-06-15T16:28:43.382Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2016-04-13T14:59:20.928Z