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