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Barkcloth or tapa, made from inner bark paper mulberry tree (Broussonetia papyrifera). iapo mamanu, Samoan barkcloth with freehand painted patterns. Square shaped, is painted with a brown dye made of o'a sap. The tapa is decorated with a square leaf motif in the central part. Motif is of o'a sap mixed with charcoal or black dye from lama nut kernels. The leaf motif consists as a square inside of which are diagonal black and brown lines. There are 20 squares arranged in 5 rows of four. The unpainted diagonals as the motifs form patterns within the rows. There is a narrow white border around three sides.
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