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bark cloth

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Title
bark cloth
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Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira
Collection
Auckland Museum Collections
Description

Bold patterns in black and white with some brown. Patterned in two panels with wide black band between them. Taunamu, barkcloth room divider with stencilled pattern. Bouma village, Taveuni Island. This large taunamu was made on the order of the Tui Cakau by the women of Bouma village. It was ceremonially presented to Lady Lala Mara, the wife of the then Prime Minister of Fiji, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, at a meeting of the Great Council of Chiefs in 1985.

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Date created
Circa 1985
URL
https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/collection/object/am_humanhistory-object-21847
Locations
Vanua Levu Group / Fiji / Pacific / Taveuni Island / Bouma Village / Melanesia

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