Length of Tapa cloth made in Tonga and Western

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Tapa cloth is known by a lot of different names,but Tapa is internationally is of great social importance to the islanders and often given as Tonga the cloth is called ngatu,in Samoa it's called is made from the bark of the Paper mulberry tree and often painted in various designs using tradional dyes.

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Size: 3551px × 5372px
Location: Tonga ,South Pacific Islands
Photo credit: © maurice joseph / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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