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Description: | CULT unknown pre 1860 (probably) Tahiti, Polynesia The cloth is cream coloured and rectangular with a medium thin and smooth texture.
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. | 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: | FABRIC : KAEPPLER_SEEN : BARKCLOTH_ASSESS_2007 : PUBL_SAC_JEN : JEN : 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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