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Tapa

Tapa

Situating Pacific Barkcloth in Time and Place

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Techniques

  • Production
  • Decoration
  • Combined

bark removal

wet shell cortex stripping

short bast soak

flat-faced beater smoothing

linear beater marking

cowrie burnishing

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