Waist Cloth (Salatasi), Futuna Island, Wallis and Futuna, late 19th–early 20th century and Sash (Lafi), Wallis and Futuna, late 19th–early 20th century, bark cloth, paint (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Additional resources
Waist cloth (Salatasi) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sash (Lafi) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Polynesia, 1900 A.D.–present in Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Tapa: Pacific Style at the Museum of New Zealand
Adrienne L Kaeppler, The Pacific Arts of Polynesia and Micronesia (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).
Roger Neich and Mick Pendergrast, Traditional Tapa: Textiles of the Pacific (Thames and Hudson: London, 1997).
Simon Kooijman, Polynesian Barkcloth (Shire Ethnography: Aylesbury, U.K., 1988).
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