What is it about?
This paper explores the interplay between gender and bark cloth, or tapa, among the Maisin people living along the shores of Collingwood Bay in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Tapa constitutes beliefs and values about gender relations and identity, mediating relations between the individual and the social. At the same time, tapa connects the living with the ancestors, God, and the Church. In short, tapa-cloth is intertwined with all aspects of Maisin life.
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Why is it important?
The article shows how art (bark cloth) is intertwined with gender and identity
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This page is a summary of: “Maisin is Tapa”: Engendering Barkcloth Among the Maisin of Papua New Guinea, Pacific Arts, November 2023, California Digital Library (CDL),
DOI: 10.5070/pc223162490.
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