Tapa Cloth For Sale Auckland
Tapa Cloth For Sale Auckland. Kiwa art in parnell are specialists in maori wood carvings & pounamu new zealand greenstone and have a wide range of bone carvings, tapa cloth, tribal jewellery & traditional artefacts. The bark is stripped off and pounded flat in such a way that it spreads into a cloth.
4 tapa cloth (or simply tapa) is a bark cloth made in the islands of the pacific ocean, primarily in tonga, samoa and fiji, but as far afield as niue, cook islands, futuna, solomon islands, java, new zealand, vanuatu, papua new guinea (particularly in oro province around tufi) and hawaiʻi (where it is called kapa). Ad by islandcostumes ad from shop islandcostumes. There will be a lead time to do this.