Tongan tapa cloth artist Tui Emma Gillies is inspired by the climate change crisis in the Pacific region. Photo / Supplied. The climate change crisis in the Pacific is the inspiration behind new ...

Taufatofua first gained worldwide attention at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, as a taekwondo athlete and the flag bearer for Tonga who appeared shirtless, oiled up in tapa cloth, a traditional ...

Bark cloth prepared for curtains by the natives of the Fiji Islands." Nearly square in shape. According to Adrienne Kaeppler, Curator of Oceania Ethnology, the border design is typically Fijian and ...

A Tongan artist is critiquing artificial intelligence while using the technology in her heritage art form of ngatu tapa. Auckland’s Tui Emma Gillies’ artwork includes tapa cloth (decorated ...

The making of barkcloth or tapa was once widespread throughout the islands of the Pacific. Today it is most strongly practised in the west Polynesian island groups of Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa. Barkcloth ...

A tapa cloth and two fine mats that were placed underneath the late King of Tonga’s, King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, casket during his return home on a Royal New Zealand Air Force C-130 Hercules in ...

Bark cloth prepared for curtains by the natives of the Fiji Islands." Nearly square in shape. According to Adrienne Kaeppler, Curator of Oceania Ethnology, the border designs are typically Fijian and ...