"Tapa, Art Océanien, Art Tribal, Arts Premiers, Etoffe, Papouasie Nouvelle Guinée"
Beautiful painted beated bark called Tapa. Tapa cloth is the first material in this region of the world that has been available for people to make clothes, covers, mosquitoe nets, exchange currency etc. Tapa from Popondetta area are made with blackberry paper bark and are used as dancing skirt. Beated bark and natural pigments. Here a dance skirt fragment. Really nice framed between two glasses. 63 x 54 cm / 300€ shipping costs included. 
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