Item X 78976 Masi kuvui | Bark cloth. Nayau Island, Northern Lau, Lau Province, Fiji. 2003

Local Name

Masi kuvui

Physical Description

Bark cloth made from paper mulberry bark. Cloth is a rectangular shape with natural coloured cloth background in, with geometric designs painted/stencilled in tan, brown and black medium. Cloth is designed with a outside border made up of five different patterns with a central panel surrounded by a plane border roughly painted in tan with several motifs; panel is surrounded by three border patterns with central pattern of two diamond shapes with central flower motifs on brown backgrounds, surrounded with five border patterns and solid black areas with motifs.