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: T/TONG/81

: British Empire & Commonwealth

: Barkcloth

: Sections of a presentation tapa cloth (with stripes 31-34). Painted in columns in brown and black. Probably rubbed on a pattern template and then hand painted in black. Stitched onto a polyester wadding backing. ‘A Gift to the Commonwealth Institute from the people of Tonga’.

: Commonwealth Institute Collection

: Tonga, Oceania / Polynesia, Pacific

: Transferred from the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, 2012