Tapa of the Pacific

By Roger Neich and Mick Pendergrast

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The authors Roger Neich and Mick Pendergrast have drawn on one of the world's largest Pacific tapa collections, that held by Auckland Museum, both to illustrate and explain the origins of tapa, how it is made, various domestic and ceremonial uses as well as meanings behind the distinctive styles and designs from various Pacific regions, which includes Samoa, Hawaii, the Solomon Islands and Tahiti.
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210 x 137 mm, 32 pages, colour, paperback

978-1-86953-464-6

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Roger Neich and Mick Pendergrast

Roger Neich was curator of ethnology at Auckland Museum at the time of publication. His other books include Material Culture of Western Samoa, Persistence and Change (1985) and Painted Histories, Early Maori Figurative Painting (1993). Mick Pendergrast was an ethnologist at Auckland Museum at the time of publication. His other books include Feathers and Fibre, A Survey of Contemporary Maori Craft (1984) and Te Aho Tapu, The Sacred Thread, Traditional Maori Weaving (1987).