Neich, Roger and Mick Pendergrast — Pacific Tapa

Honolulu, Hawai'i, University of Hawaii Press, 2004. Reprint Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, virtually gift-quality condition inside and out, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy pictorial wraps, in gate-fold. 240 illustrations all in, 202 of them being in full, glossy color, a fine survey of the making of tapa cloth, beaten into shape from the inner bark of certain trees and palms in and throughout Melanesia and parts of Polynesia, New Guinea to the Cooks, New Zealand to Tahiti, Vanuatu and beyond. vii [1], 8-160 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/As New,