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Siapo mamanu, barkcloth (tapa); made from inner bark paper mulberry tree (Broussonetia papyrifera); Samoa; brown and black dye; a type of Samoan barkcloth with freehand painted patterns; possibly a funeral piece heavily over-painted with a black and brown dye made of o'a sap. The central part of the tapa has a brown base with repeating black motif. Motif is hard to determine? possibly a bird, or pandanus leaves, or a banana bunch. The borders have a fa'a'ti'ao (trochus shell) pattern in-filled with tusi li'i These patterns appear to be divided into sections, some point in different ways. The end border has squares of black and brown and tusi li'i. One section of the border has 2 lines of rectangular shapes in it.
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