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Tapa cloth(1) Variety and History of tapa
Tapa is made throughout the Pacific with great variety....
published: 12 Sep 2011
author: foedauck
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Tapa cloth: (3) processing the mulberry
Women process the harvested mulberry to create the unadorned cloth that is the basis of ta...
published: 13 Sep 2011
author: foedauck
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Tapa cloth made from Breadfruit Bark
Tapa made from the Breadfruit Bark....
published: 09 Oct 2012
author: Huli Opu
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Tongan Arts and Crafts: Tapa Cloth Making
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published: 10 Jul 2011
author: TravelVideoSource
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Tapa Cloth - Tales from Te Papa episode 38
Eco fashion is nothing new in the Pacific Islands. For centuries they've been wearing tapa...
published: 19 Oct 2011
author: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
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Tapa cloth: (5) Making Dyes and Painting the cloth
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published: 14 Sep 2011
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Tapa cloth: (4) dying the cloth
In tonga women create stencils and dye tapa cloth ready for hand painting....
published: 13 Sep 2011
author: foedauck
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Tapa cloth:(2) Harvesting mulberry
How mulberry is planted, tended and harvested in Tonga....
published: 13 Sep 2011
author: foedauck
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Pieces of Cloth Pieces of Culture, Tapa Making and Community Collaboration.m4v
Tongan Tapa Cloth bonus material to the documentary: Pieces of Cloth, Pieces of Culture: T...
published: 13 Apr 2012
author: California College of the Arts
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Tapa Cloth Made in Tonga | SabinasWorld
☼ ALL INFO HERE ☼ Part 8 of my sister's around the world trip! This video is from Ha'ataf...
published: 17 Feb 2014
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Making Tapa cloth
Making Tapa cloth....
published: 13 Mar 2013
author: gentlecalmsea
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Māori fine arts student receives scholarship to research tapa cloth
A young woman with a passion for Māori taonga has been awarded the inaugural Sir Hugh Kawh...
published: 19 Aug 2014
author: Te Karere TVNZ
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Tahitian origins of Hawaiian breadfruit tapa cloth
Kumu Wesley Sen describes the origins of Hawaiian breadfruit kapa cloth on the grounds of ...
published: 23 Dec 2011
author: HIHomegrown
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Wahine Kuku Kapa O Hawai'i Nei(Tapa cloth making)　タパ布講習ハワイ島
Alaila la hoomaka oia i hoopulu ia oia aku paha alaila hoomaka oia e kikelekele iluna o ka...
published: 29 Jan 2011
author: Huli Opu
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Scar13 Polynesian Tapa Cloth - Hula Photo mosaic
I'm paying a return visit to photo mosaic land, a place I haven't spent a lot of time sinc...
published: 29 May 2009
author: digitalArtform
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Ka Hana Tapa (Hawaiian Tapa/Kapa making)
Hawaiian Tapa cloth is being made again after 30 years of research and work in all aspects...
published: 03 Jul 2011
author: romiromikona
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Kapa Pōʻulu/Tapa cloth made from Breadfruit bark
Tapa making at the Ulu Breadfruit Festival, Capt. Cook, Kona, Hawaii. In addition to provi...
published: 25 Sep 2011
author: romiromikona
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Tapa Cloth Making Samoa 2013, Travel Video Guide
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published: 23 Apr 2013
author: Fun Travel TV Show
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Making ink (koka dye) for tapa cloth. Vava'u, Tonga
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published: 04 Feb 2011
author: lilbooks
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Making (Beating) Tapa Cloth in Vava'u, Tonga.
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Oro Tapa Cloth interview with Florence Bunari
Tapa cloth (or simply tapa) is a barkcloth made in the islands of the Pacific Ocean, prima...
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tapa cloth mats
Making and painting of large tapa cloth mats. Different styles....Experiences of our cruis...
published: 07 Jan 2013
author: Mi-sA-le Fransen
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Kapa Olena/Tapa cloth dyed with tumeric roots
Tapa cloth dyed with Olena/Tumeric roots. Made for a Hula graduation presentation. http://...
published: 04 Oct 2011
author: romiromikona
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Aranui Passengers at Demonstration of Making Tapa Cloth--MVI 1377
This is a film of a part of the demonstration of the making of tapa cloth. Missing is the ...
published: 21 Apr 2011
author: stwetch
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Published: 21 Apr 2011

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). In French Polynesia it has nearly disappeared, except for some villages in the Marquesas.

The cloth is known by a number of local names although the term tapa is international and understood throughout the islands that use the cloth. The word tapa is from Tahiti and the Cook Islands, where Captain Cook was the first European to collect it and introduce it to the rest of the world. In Tonga, tapa is known as ngatu, and here it is of great social importance to the islanders, often being given as gifts. In Samoa, the same cloth is called siapo, and In Niue it is hiapo. In Hawaiʻi, it is known as kapa. In Rotuma, a Polynesian island in the Fiji group, it is called ‘uha and in other Fiji islands it is called masi. In the Pitcairn islands it was called ahu. Also known as Tapia

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