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1 online resource (346 p.) |
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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Image Credits -- Biographies -- Introduction -- Frances Lennard -- TAPA AS FABRIC: BAST AND COLOURANTS -- 1 -- The Procurement, Cultural Value and Fabric Characteristics of Polynesian Tapa Species -- Andy Mills -- Plant Profile 1: Fibre -- Plant Profile 2: Fibre, latex -- Mark Nesbitt -- Technical Variation in Historical Polynesian Tapa Manufacture -- Andy Mills -- 3 -- Breadfruit Tapa: Not Always Second Best -- Michele Austin Dennehy, Jean Chapman Mason, Adrienne L. Kaeppler -- Plant Profile 3: Fibre -- Plant Profile 4: Fibre -- Mark Nesbitt |
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A New Perspective on Understanding Hawaiian Kapa Making -- Lisa Schattenburg-Raymond -- 5 -- Polynesian Tapa Colourants -- Andy Mills, Taoi Nooroa, Allan Tuara -- Plant Profile 5: Fibre -- Plant Profile 6: Fibre -- Mark Nesbitt -- 6 -- Hawaiian Dyes and Kapa Pigments: A Modern Perspective and Brief Analysis of the Historic Record -- Lisa Schattenburg-Raymond -- UNDERSTANDING TAPA IN -- TIME AND PLACE -- 7 -- Towards A Regional Chronology of Polynesian Barkcloth Manufacture -- Andy Mills -- 8 -- Living with Tapa and the Social Life of Ritual Objects -- Adrienne L. Kaeppler |
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Plant Profile 7: Fibre -- Plant Profile 8: Starch (glue) -- Mark Nesbitt -- 9 -- West Polynesian Dyes and Decorations as Cultural Signatures -- Adrienne L. Kaeppler -- 10 -- 'A Classification of Tongan Ngatu': Change and Stability in Tongan Barkcloth Forms since 1963 -- Billie Lythberg -- 11 -- White for Purity, Brown for Beautiful Like Us and Black Because it is Awesome -- Fanny Wonu Veys -- Plant Profile 9: Red dye -- Plant Profile 10: Black dye -- Mark Nesbitt -- 12 -- Barkcloth from the Islands of Wallis ('Uvea) and Futuna -- Hélène Guiot -- 13 -- Barkcloth in the Māori World |
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Patricia Te Arapo Wallace -- 14 -- 'Ahu Sistas: Reclaiming History, Telling our Stories -- Pauline Reynolds, Jean Clarkson -- Plant Profile 11: Yellow dye -- Turmeric Curcuma longa L. ZINGIBERACEAE -- Plant Profile 12: Yellow dye -- Mark Nesbitt -- 15 -- 'Tataki ʻe he Leá: Guided Language' -- Tui Emma Gillies, Sulieti Fiemeʻa Burrows -- TAPA IN COLLECTIONS AND THE COMMUNITY -- 16 -- The Hunterian's Polynesian Barkcloth Collection -- Andy Mills -- 17 -- From Maker to Museum: Polynesian Barkcloth at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew -- Mark Nesbitt, Brittany Curtis and Andy Mills |
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Plant Profile 13: Red dye, fibre -- Plant Profile 14: Red dye -- Tou Cordia subcordata Lam. BORAGINACEAE -- Plant Profile 15: Red dye, wood -- Mark Nesbitt -- 18 -- Smithsonian Institution Barkcloth Collections -- Adrienne L. Kaeppler -- 19 -- 'Holomua ka Hana Kapa': A Symposium on Caring for Kapa and Kapa Makers at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, December 2017 -- Alice Christophe -- 20 -- Fiji Masi and the Auckland Museum Pacific Collection Access Project -- Fuli Pereira, Leone Samu Tui -- Plant Profile 16: Red-brown dye -- Plant Profile 17: Brown dye -- Mark Nesbitt -- 21 |
| Summary |
Barkcloth or tapa, a cloth made from the inner bark of trees, was widely used in place of woven cloth in the Pacific islands until the 19th century. A ubiquitous material, it was integral to the lives of islanders and used for clothing, furnishings and ritual artefacts. Material Approaches to Polynesian Barkcloth takes a new approach to the study of the history of this region through its barkcloth heritage, focusing on the plants themselves and surviving objec |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Shown to Full Advantage: Conservation and Mounting of Barkcloth for Display in the 'Shifting Patterns: Pacific Barkcloth Clothing' Exhibition at the British Museum |
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Tapa.
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Polynesia
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Textile fabrics.
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tapa (bark cloth)
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cloth.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mills, A
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| ISBN |
9789088909733 |
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9088909733 |
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