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A Papuan tapa cloth, rectangular barkcloth from Papua…
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A Papuan tapa cloth, rectangular barkcloth from Papua New-Guinea, divided into four panels each filled with labyrinthine geometric motifs in red, bordered by black contours and dotted lines on natural-coloured ground. The pieces of inner bark from paper mulberry trees or breadfruit trees were soaked, dried and beaten with a mallet, and then joined together with vegetal glue to make a larger cloth. The pigments came from ochres and coal and were applied in a unique way according to the culture of the people working on it and the occasion it was made for, usually a ceremonial context. 167 x 73 cm
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