| Brief Description |
Siapo mamanu or barkcloth (tapa); Samoa; made from inner bark paper mulberry tree (Broussonetia papyrifera), brown dye; siapo mamanu is a type of Samoan barkcloth with freehand painted patterns; heavily painted with a black and brown resinous glaze of o'a sap mixed with charcoal or black dye from lama nut kernels. Pattern is divided into 28 squares, each row of 4 separated by a cross-hatched dividing line. Same for each row of squares on outer edge. Each square a variation of tusili'i (small lines) or fa'a 'li'ao (trochus shell) pattern; two layers.
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