Polynesian Tapa Cloth Folding Screen

Price: $1,450

Designers: Dongan Collection

Era: 21st century / 2000's, 1940's

Country of Origin: Tonga

Materials: Paper

Condition: Excellent Condition

Style: Decorating Style > African / Africana, Decorating Style > Asian, Decorating Style > Contemporary, Decorating Style > Eclectic, Decorating Style > Ethinic, Decorating Style > Exotic

Item description:

Polynesian barkcloth or Tapa, hand made circa 1945 in the traditional technique with natural dyes and the inner bark of the paper-mulberry tree. Recently divided into four panels and mounted as a folding screen, the back finished with Curwen printed laid paper, stretched on lap-jointed poplar frame.