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Posted on September 2, 2020January 4, 2021

Our Forthcoming Book on Material Approaches to Polynesian Barkcloth

We are delighted to announce our forthcoming book on ‘Material Approaches to Polynesian Barkcloth’. Edited by Frances Lennard and Andy Mills, this book builds on our object-based approach to …

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Posted on August 18, 2020September 14, 2020

Registration Open for Barkcloth Live Sessions

Join us in early September at our live sessions discussing Pacific tapa in museum collections as well as people’s own experience and engagement with it. Sharing Experiences and Photos: …

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Posted on August 2, 2020September 14, 2020

Barkcloth Basics – Update on Workshops

The Barkcloth Basics: Interpreting and Understanding Pacific Barkcloth workshops that we had hoped to take place in our partner museums in August 2020, unfortunately will not be able to …

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Posted on April 29, 2020September 14, 2020

Making O‘a (brown dye) in American Samoa

Last week would have marked our final set of the Barkcloth Basics: Interpreting and Understanding Pacific Barkcloth workshops. While we are sad that we could not share these workshops …

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Posted on March 26, 2020September 1, 2020

American Samoan U‘a Patch & New Workshop Dates

Reggie Meredith, our wonderful tapa maker and practitioner in American Samoa, sent us this photo of her weeding and maintaining her u’a (paper mulberry) patch a couple of weeks …

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