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Tapa Cloth Art bought in Tahiti, professionally framed locally - $22 (Ballwin / Wildwood)
condition:
excellent
make / manufacturer:
Tahitian artist / painter
size / dimensions:
details in posting for each
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The centerpiece of this frame is a piece of Tapa Cloth from French Polynesia [Tahiti].
Tapa cloth is a barkcloth made in the islands of the Pacific Ocean, primarily in Tonga, Samoa and Fiji, but as far afield as Niue, Cook Islands, Futuna, Solomon Islands, Java, New Zealand, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea and Hawaii (where it is called kapa). In Tahiti / French Polynesia it has almost disappeared.
It is used for traditional, often ceremonial, clothing and for art or for decorative banners and displays on festive occasions. The designs on it are all traditional figures and representations of the physical and spiritual worlds in which the ancestors of today's French Polynesians lived.
The seller bought this in 2001 on Manihi, a coral atoll in the Tuamotu Archipelago, part of French Polynesia. It was brought home, matted and commercially framed with a paper-sealed backing to the frame; a wire for displaying, made to measure, was fastened securely on the back side of the frame.
Dimensions : 20” tall and 18” wide.
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