| Brief Description |
Barkcloth (tapa) made from inner bark paper mulberry tree (Broussonetia papyrifera). Brown dye. Siapo mamanu, 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, corners are joined by fa'a tuli (sand-piper) or fa'a gogo (tern) pattern. Each square is dissected diagonally with straight line and within each triangle created is a heart-shaped motif with knob on one end and leg-like appendages around side, which resembles a fruit or seed.
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