Unwrapping Tongan Barkcloth : Encounters, Creativity and Female Agency

UK and Italy to Switzerland and the USA, addressing the bias of the European 'gaze' and challenging traditional gendered understandings of the cloth. A nuanced narrative of past and present barkcloth manufacture, designs and use, "Unwrapping Tongan Barkcloth" demonstrates the importance of the textile to both historical and contemporary Polynesian culture. [Publisher's Text]

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