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Girl's fringed poncho (tiputa) of printed tapa or barkcloth: Polynesian, Samoa

Tiputa (poncho) made from painted hiapo (barkcloth) with geometric and naturalistic decoration front and back, with pierced tassled edges and an inscription along the bottom: Polynesia, Niue

Club of heavy brown wood, with head in form of large pineapple ornamented with several bands of white tapa or barkcloth: Pacific Peoples, Fiji

Section of barkcloth (kapa) made up of three pices stitched together, decorated on one side with white and red diagonal stripes, red and black lightning bolts and other blocks on a black background: Hawai'i, Hawaiian Islands, Polynesia, late 18th - early 19th century

One of three barkcloth ('ahu) samples attached to a card, this example is undecorated : Polynesian, Tahiti, Society Islands, Polynesia, 18th century

Fifteen small samples of barkcloth (tapa, kapa) in a glazed frame, brought home by Captain Cook: Polynesian, Hawaiian Islands, 1770

Large section of masi (barkcloth), cream with a light criss-cross pattern and black lines on one side, red-brown and black blocks on the other: Fiji or Tonga, Polynesia, late 18th or early 19th century

Square section of barkcloth, creamy-yellow with decoration on one side consisting of elongated, v-shaped lines in bright red and single parallel lines in slightly patchy black spaced at regular intervals in the opposite direction: Polynesia

Hanging of tapa or barkcloth decorated with stencilled geometric designs in black acrylic or oil paint, and a stencilled flower motif in brown pigment: Pacific Peoples, Fiji, 1970s

Hanging of tapa or barkcloth decorated with stencilled motifs and painted lines in black and brown acrylic or oil paint: Pacific Peoples, Fiji, 1970s