Bark cloth "tapa" ·  Samoa/Tonga/Fiji · ID: 3040525

Description

vegetal fibre, pigment (black and reddish brown), painted on both sides with geometrical patterns and hatched areas, small pieces of material attached in some places for mending defective spots, small tears and holes

Samoan tapa cloth “siapo” is usually made from the inner bark of the paper mulberry tree “u‘a”. The bark is carefully peeled off the tree in strips and then the inner bark is separated and scraped clean. It is then pounded until it widens into a larger size. The pieces of cloth go through a process where they are pasted together to make a larger cloth.

L’objet Bark cloth “tapa” avec l’ID d’objet 3040525 a fait partie de la dernière vente aux enchères 83rd Tribal Art Auction dans 28 mai 2016 le Zemanek-Münster Hôtel des ventes. L’objet portant le numéro de lot 98 a atteint un prix de vente de 300 €.

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