Hiapo (tapa cloth)

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Hiapo (tapa cloth)

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Te Papa Collections Online

Description

This is a hiapo, a decorated barkcloth from Niue. Little is known of pre-nineteenth-century forms of Niuean cloth, except that, in the 1830s, Samoan methods of decorating barkcloth were introduced to Niue by Samoan missionaries. Consequently, the patterns and motifs on Niuean hiapo from the mid nineteenth century are often indistinguishable from Samoan pieces of the same period. Materials and decorationThis hiapo is made from the bark of the paper mulberry tree. It has been decorated with ha...

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Date created

1800s

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/86107

Related subjects

Textiles / tapa / dye / ceremonial objects / beating / Niue / Polynesian / Oceanic / Niuean / George Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway

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