Paper
Made before 2001
Fatu Hiva, Marquesas Islands
An important revival in Marquesan barkcloth (hiapo) is taking place. Decorative designs are based on traditional tattooing motifs which are associated with the male warrior spirit; serving as visual armour but also asserting power and authority. The human eye motif relates to the good sight needed in combat. The turtle is associated with the world of the dead travelling between the land and the sea.
Collected by Jenny Balfour Paul in 2001. Height 767mm.
Fatu Hiva, Marquesas Islands
An important revival in Marquesan barkcloth (hiapo) is taking place. Decorative designs are based on traditional tattooing motifs which are associated with the male warrior spirit; serving as visual armour but also asserting power and authority. The human eye motif relates to the good sight needed in combat. The turtle is associated with the world of the dead travelling between the land and the sea.
Collected by Jenny Balfour Paul in 2001. Height 767mm.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 127/2001/1
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Art non religious figures
- Collection Area Region
- POLYN
- Material
- paper mulberryroot or modern
- Common Name
- paper
- Simple Name
- paper
- Production Town
- Fatu Hiva
- Production County
- Marquesas Islands
- Production Country
- French Polynesia (Overseas Collectivity of France)
- Production Year High
- 2001
