Vintage LARGE Pre-1970s Samoan Tapa Painting Museum Quality Ethnic Pacific Art

Description

This Vintage Handcrafted Samoan Tapa Cloth handpainted on mulberry bark using traditional techniques was acquired in the early 1970’s in American Samoa.
It is quite large - 5’ x 8’ - and in impeccable condition.
The images are traditional tapa symbols, painted with plant-based dyes in shades of brown. The images repeat along the length of the hand beaten mulberry bark cloth. At one end are painted the numbers 39, 40 and 41.
Considering this was actually used as a dividing curtain in a fale (Samoan thatched roof, open air home), this tapa cloth is in incredible condition.
It would be a showstopper framed in a tropical vacation home.
It will need to be shipped in a poster tube, but I couldn’t figure out how to specify that in the listing, so please know we will only charge you the actual shipping cost.
Please message me with any questions.