Pacific Barkcloth
Sydney, AUSTRALIA — For millennia, bark cloths harvested from paper mulberry trees have been used to wrap babies and bury elders, and are presented with gratitude to ceremonial hosts across Oceania.
And now artist Léuli Eshrāghi has taken them into the 21st century, in a digital incarnation that...
![Artist Regina Meredith-Fitiao (2nd from left) of ASCC, with her husband Su’a Uilisone Fitiao of Pacific Horizons School, giving a siapo workshop at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. The workshop was for the benefit of museum professionals responsible for the care of historic siapo in their collections. [courtesy photo]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/ASCC%20Meredith%20in%20Scotland.jpg?itok=582RWnNG "Artist Regina Meredith-Fitiao (2nd from left) of ASCC, with her husband Su’a Uilisone Fitiao of Pacific Horizons School, giving a siapo workshop at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. The workshop was for the benefit of museum professionals responsible for the care of historic siapo in their collections. [courtesy photo]")
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Situating Pacific Barkcloth in Time and Place is an ongoing, three-year interdisciplinary project currently underway at Scotland’s University of Glasgow. The project aims to find out more about the materials, history, uses and contemporary practice of making barkcloth,...