EditorialChez les Maories: Sauvageries (At Home with the Maori: Savage Things). Paul Gauguin; French, 1848-1903. Date: 1893. Dimensions: 328 ? 265 mm (closed); 328 ? 530 mm (open). Watercolor, with traces of black crayon and graphite, on tapa, partially laid do...
EditorialARTE PRECOLOMBINO. COSTA RICA-PANAMA. TAPA DE INCENSARIO, fechada entre el 1000 a. C. y el 500. GRAN CHIRIQUI. Museo de Arte de Denver. Estado de Colorado. Estados Unidos.
EditorialChez les Maories: Sauvageries (At Home with the Maori: Savage Things). Paul Gauguin; French, 1848-1903. Date: 1893. Dimensions: 328 ? 265 mm (closed); 328 ? 530 mm (open). Watercolor, with traces of black crayon and graphite, on tapa, partially laid do...
EditorialChez les Maories: Sauvageries (At Home with the Maori: Savage Things). Paul Gauguin; French, 1848-1903. Date: 1893. Dimensions: 328 ? 265 mm (closed); 328 ? 530 mm (open). Watercolor, with traces of black crayon and graphite, on tapa, partially laid do...
EditorialA dancing girl (of Otaheite). Drawn by John Webber and engraved by John Keyse Sherwin. A girl dancing in a long gown with highly puckered ruffs of tapa attached to the back of the waist and feathery pompons covering the breasts. Several long tassels ar...
EditorialA girl bringing presents to Captn. Cook. Drawn by John Webber and engraving by Francesco Bartolozzi. A girl wearing a `dress' consisting of a prodigous quantity of tapa cloth bound about her waist. This, and the two feather gorgets, or breast plates, f...
EditorialTapa cloth, Medium: paper mulberry bark Technique: beaten, printed and painted, Tapa cloth printed in design of brown daisies on white circles on brown ground., Samoa, 18001850, non-woven textiles, Tapa cloth.
EditorialTapa cloth, Medium: bark Technique: beaten, Oblong panel of tapa cloth with a geometric design painted in two shades of brown. Two long borders have squares enclosing trefoils., Fiji, 19th century, non-woven textiles, Tapa cloth.
EditorialTapa cloth, Medium: bark Technique: painted, Rectangle of two thicknesses, printed in dark brown in design of striated diagonals within tall rectangles. Dark triangles of solid shiny pigment may be painted. Lozenge pattern border at one end., Samoa?, P...
EditorialBark cloth, Medium: Broussonetia bark Technique: beaten bark fiber, rubbed and hand painted Label: beaten and rubbed Broussonetia bark, hand-painted, Large panel of tapa cloth. Thick white fabric made from beaten bark, painted in rust and brown in desi...
EditorialTapa cloth, Medium: bark (bronssetia) Technique: printed, Two thicknesses of bark cloth, white, printed in grey and yellow in lozenge and zigzag pattern., Pacific Islands, 19th century, non-woven textiles, Tapa cloth.