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Applying decoration to bark cloth
Applying decoration to bark cloth
Women of Somosomo Village, Taveuni (Cakaudrove Province), printing bark cloth by rubbing paint over a mask of intersecting coconut leaves, a method called
bolabola
.
Reg. Number: XP17426
Fiji Museum photograph
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