Assertion: tapa | /r/Synonym | siapo
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text: I have been known to send gentle emails to people pointing out that “your tapa is actually called ngatu (or siapo or masi) and is from the island of Tonga (or Samoa or Fiji)
text: According to Dr. Adrienne L. Kaeppler, Curator of Oceanic Ethnology in the Department of Anthropology at the National Museum of Natural History, the Tapa used to cover the Royal Hawaiian Hotel’s phone book was imported from Samoa (where Tapa is known as Siapo).