Sentence examples for tapa bark from inspiring English sources

The geometric designs drawn on the tapa (bark) cloth or pandan fibre mats still made on the islands of Wallis and Futuna, and Vanuatu bear witness to their passing.

Palm fronds and plastic tubes, tapa bark and newsprint, ancient motifs and scraps of magazine advertisements are treated with equal respect, and the synthesis yields rich and fascinating results.

These early garments were made of native tapa, or bark cloth.

Aggressive supernatural spirits of an almost demonic nature are represented by these masks, which are constructed from a variety of materials, usually including tapa, or bark cloth, and the pith of certain reeds.

Tells about some of the objects exhibited and quotes from two captions which tell about tapa or bark cloth and the Aborigines' use of magic & sorcery for killing & curing.

"Bark bark bark bark!" yell the dogs.

Women manufacture tapa cloth from bark and weave mats and baskets from several varieties of pandanus leaves.

Vegetable material also furnished a major source of clothing in the form of the beaten bark (tapa) of the paper mulberry tree or the banyan.

This is mainly due to the perishability of much of the material (e.g., wood, tapa [bark] cloth, basketry, and featherwork) and the dispersion that took place during the era of European contact, when such items were traded for firearms, liquor, iron tools, and trinkets.

Apart from sculpture, the surfaces used for painting were rock faces, bark, and tapa (cloth made from pounded bark).

In 2007, Warren revived Pitcairn's tradition of art created on tapa cloth, a woven bark cloth common in Polynesian culture.