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masi bolabola?

In Fiji, the production of bark cloth has never stopped. Nowadays, however, the women only produce it in a few places, such as Lau Island in eastern Fiji, Cakaudrove Province on Vanua Levu, and Vatulele Island in southern Fiji. They range from small pieces for sale to large pieces 50 metres long and 5 metres wide. The inner bark of the paper mulberry tree is stripped, soaked and beaten wide with wooden beaters. Several such pieces of fabric are then laid on top of each other at the edges and joined together by further beating to form a larger fabric, expanded and painted. This piece probably comes from north-east Fiji (Cakaudrove).

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
Bark pulp
Dimensions
Transportmaß: 15 x 240 x 15 cm (auf standardisierter Rolle, D=10cm)
Länge x Breite: 336 x 170 cm
Dicke: ca. 2 mm
Tiefe: (auf 6 cm Rolle montiert) ca.: 10 cm (konnte nur geschätzt werden)
Gewicht: < 2 kg
Material/Technique
Bark bast (paper mulberry tree/Broussonetia papyrifera), Pigment, Plant juice
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VI 4577

Provenance and sources

when
before 1881
where
Polynesia [Großregion]
Fiji [Land]
Northeast Fiji (?) [Region]

who
Regierung von Victoria - Former Possessors

Description
Donation from the government of Victoria 1881

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