From The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum

Category: Oceania

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Tapa Cloth from Oceania

Post author By GW Museum
Post date May 8, 2024

Tapa cloth fragment, Oceania, 1900-1920. Bark, beaten, 16 x 22 cm. Cotsen Textile Traces Study Collection T-2922aa.

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Skirt from Papua New Guinea

Post author By GW Museum
Post date July 12, 2023

Detail of a beige textile with four stylized animals with long bodies and four limbs in a row

Skirt; Oceania, New Guinea. Bark, beaten, 146 x 87 cm. The Textile Museum Collection 1966.57.7. Museum purchase.

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Natural Wonder, Beaten Artistry: Tapa Cloths produced in Hawai’i

Post author By GW Museum
Post date March 19, 2022

Detail of off-white fibers of a tapa fragment.

Tapa fragment; United States, Hawaii; c. 18th century. Tapa cloth fragment, tapa; 12.40 x 7.6 cm, Cotsen Textile Traces Study Collection T-3167. Bruce M. White Photography.

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Masibolabola from Fiji

Post author By GW Museum
Post date August 7, 2020

Rectangular cloth with geometric patterning in black and off-white

Ceremonial panel (masibolabola), Fiji, Cakaudrove district, c. 1900. Beaten bast fiber, painted with pigment; 91 x 70 cm. Cotsen Textile Collection T-3133.