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["Tela d'escorça", "Barkcloth", "Tela d'escorça", "Tela de corteza"]
- Description:
- 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 on special occasions, such as weddings or the funerals of chiefs. A symbol of wealth, it was stored along with other valuable objects in great bales in the rafters of chiefs' houses.
- Location:
- Fiji
- Format:
- image
- Collections:
- Museum of Cultures of the World
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- Museum of Cultures of the World
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