At the Chattanooga ROADSHOW in July 2008, I talked with a guest named George from Ringgold, Georgia, who had brought in a 19th-century tapa cloth and club from Fiji, originally given to his great ...

The exhibition features works from Fiji, Niue, Samoa, Tonga, Hawai’i, Futuna, the Solomon and Cook Islands, Papua New Guinea, and Vanuatu. ‘Paperskin: the art of tapa cloth is the result of a ...

Fijian tapa cloth or masi is made from tree bark which is beaten until soft and pliable and then the sheets are interwoven, and plaited until a mat is made. It is then painted or dyed with traditional ...

2013. Anthropological evidence of the 15 intended iTaukei tapa cloth (masi) motifs pre-dating the creation of the Air Pacific/Fiji Aiways logo. Unpublished paper. Mata’afa Tufele, Tina. 2013. Pac ...