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Description: | CULT unknown pre 1860 (probably) Tahiti or Hawaii? Polynesia The cloth is rectangular, decorated with a border band of horizontal lines in dark red and black and a surface pattern of spots and x shapes. The texture is smooth and thin.
Various techniques of bark cloth manufacture are practiced in the Pacific. The most common involves stripping bark from a tree, then separating and discarding the outer bark. The inner bark is beaten on an anvil with wooden beaters to separate the fibres. Beaters with varying gauges of grooving are used, starting with the most crude and finishing with a smooth surfaced beater. Fibres are often soaked in water to soften. To produce larger pieces of tapa, smaller layers can be felted together.
This piece of cloth is likely to have been intended for use as a loincloth, as the pattern has been placed at one end only. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | BARKCLOTH_ASSESS_2007 : BARKCLOTH : FABRIC : JEN : PUBL_SAC_JEN : KAEPPLER_SEEN : XTURNER : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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