Material Approaches to Polynesian Barkcloth
Subtitle: Cloth, Collections, Communities
Contributors: Mills, Andy
Publisher: Sidestone Press
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9789088909733
Subjects: Tapa
Description: Barkcloth or tapa, a cloth made from the inner bark of trees, was widely used in place of woven cloth in the Pacific islands until the 19th century. A ubiquitous material, it was integral to the lives of islanders and used for clothing, furnishings and ritual artefacts. Material Approaches to Polynesian Barkcloth takes a new approach to the study of the history of this region through its barkcloth heritage, focusing on the plants themselves and surviving objec.
Table of contents: title: Intro; title: Acknowledgements; title: Image Credits; title: Biographies; title: Introduction; title: Frances Lennard; title: TAPA AS FABRIC: BAST AND COLOURANTS; title: 1; title: The Procurement, Cultural Value and Fabric Characteristics of Polynesian Tapa Species; title: Andy Mills; title: Plant Profile 1: Fibre; title: Plant Profile 2: Fibre, latex; title: Mark Nesbitt; title: Technical Variation in Historical Polynesian Tapa Manufacture; title: Andy Mills; title: 3; title: Breadfruit Tapa: Not Always Second Best; title: Michele Austin Dennehy, Jean Chapman Mason, Adrienne L. Kaeppler; title: Plant Profile 3: Fibre; title: Plant Profile 4: Fibre; title: Mark Nesbitt; title: A New Perspective on Understanding Hawaiian Kapa Making; title: Lisa Schattenburg-Raymond; title: 5; title: Polynesian Tapa Colourants; title: Andy Mills, Taoi Nooroa, Allan Tuara; title: Plant Profile 5: Fibre; title: Plant Profile 6: Fibre; title: Mark Nesbitt; title: 6; title: Hawaiian Dyes and Kapa Pigments: A Modern Perspective and Brief Analysis of the Historic Record; title: Lisa Schattenburg-Raymond; title: UNDERSTANDING TAPA IN; title: TIME AND PLACE; title: 7; title: Towards A Regional Chronology of Polynesian Barkcloth Manufacture; title: Andy Mills; title: 8; title: Living with Tapa and the Social Life of Ritual Objects; title: Adrienne L. Kaeppler; title: Plant Profile 7: Fibre; title: Plant Profile 8: Starch (glue); title: Mark Nesbitt; title: 9; title: West Polynesian Dyes and Decorations as Cultural Signatures; title: Adrienne L. Kaeppler; title: 10; title: 'A Classification of Tongan Ngatu': Change and Stability in Tongan Barkcloth Forms since 1963; title: Billie Lythberg; title: 11; title: White for Purity, Brown for Beautiful Like Us and Black Because it is Awesome; title: Fanny Wonu Veys; title: Plant Profile 9: Red dye; title: Plant Profile 10: Black dye; title: Mark Nesbitt; title: 12; title: Barkcloth from the Islands of Wallis ('Uvea) and Futuna; title: Hélène Guiot; title: 13; title: Barkcloth in the Māori World; title: Patricia Te Arapo Wallace; title: 14; title: 'Ahu Sistas: Reclaiming History, Telling our Stories; title: Pauline Reynolds, Jean Clarkson; title: Plant Profile 11: Yellow dye; title: Turmeric Curcuma longa L. ZINGIBERACEAE; title: Plant Profile 12: Yellow dye; title: Mark Nesbitt; title: 15; title: 'Tataki ʻe he Leá: Guided Language'; title: Tui Emma Gillies, Sulieti Fiemeʻa Burrows; title: TAPA IN COLLECTIONS AND THE COMMUNITY; title: 16; title: The Hunterian's Polynesian Barkcloth Collection; title: Andy Mills; title: 17; title: From Maker to Museum: Polynesian Barkcloth at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; title: Mark Nesbitt, Brittany Curtis and Andy Mills; title: Plant Profile 13: Red dye, fibre; title: Plant Profile 14: Red dye; title: Tou Cordia subcordata Lam. BORAGINACEAE; title: Plant Profile 15: Red dye, wood; title: Mark Nesbitt; title: 18; title: Smithsonian Institution Barkcloth Collections; title: Adrienne L. Kaeppler; title: 19; title: 'Holomua ka Hana Kapa': A Symposium on Caring for Kapa and Kapa Makers at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, December 2017; title: Alice Christophe; title: 20; title: Fiji Masi and the Auckland Museum Pacific Collection Access Project; title: Fuli Pereira, Leone Samu Tui; title: Plant Profile 16: Red-brown dye; title: Plant Profile 17: Brown dye; title: Mark Nesbitt; title: 21