In an exciting new stage of the project, the barkcloth research has moved to the Pacific in recent months. In the first instalment of our travels, Andy Mills and …
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Two-Day Workshop at the Bishop Museum, Honolulu
We are delighted to announce that the Caring for Tapa workshop will take place at the Bishop Museum in partnership with the project. Please check the Bishop Museum for …
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New Barkcloth Research at the ESfO Conference 2017
At the start of July, Kew’s Mark Nesbitt and I attended the 2017 conference of the European Society for Oceanists (ESfO) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in the beautiful city of …
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Work at the Kew Archives is Producing Some Fascinating Insights
Recently I spent three very stimulating weeks working with our project Co-Investigator Mark Nesbitt and his colleagues at our primary UK partner institution, the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew. …
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Adrienne Kaeppler Research Visit to Tonga
Adrienne Kaeppler with the Queen of Tonga, Her Majesty Nanasipau‘u, researching a Tongan kupesi design board from the 1940s. It illustrates the tennis court from a group of kupesi …
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