Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities Day One - 17 Sep 2025

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A Fiji long tapa cloth

£800 - £1,200

A Fiji long tapa cloth
Melanesia
bark cloth of two narrow strips and painted stylised turtles and bordered by spiked crescents, inscribed TUUMUTIGA, Simonumia, SITOTOOTO and SITUPUGA, with fringes,
460cm x 85cm,
and three Fiji tapa cloth fragments, including a block and linear design, 213cm x 67cm, and two panelled, with star / sun and cross patterns, 136cm x 96cm and 144cm x 109cm. (4)

Provenance
William Ohly (1883 - 1955) Berkeley Galleries and Abbey Museum, New Barnet, London, UK, and thence by descent.

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