Rare Tapa Kapa Sentani Tribal Barkcloth Abstract Hand Painted Art New Guinea 41

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Rare Tapa Kapa Sentani Tribal Barkcloth Abstract Hand Painted Art New Guinea 41:
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superb geometric motif done to perfectionwith stylized animal motifs of lizards, eels and fish.

fish and insects from the Lake Sentaniregion, Irian Jaya, Papua new Guinea. ITEM 41

Sizelarge 25\" x 16 1/4\" . Very detailed, one of a kind, unique tribal artpainting on bark from Irian Jayathat we collected on the premises. This traditional piece is beautiful in everyway. Highly collectable! The stylized designs have spiritual meaning.Delightful motifs, great condition. TheSentani area of Irian Jaya is famous for abstract paintings written or paintedon bark: The bark is peeled off and flattened then painted.

Barkcloth is highlydistinctive, and generally took the form of maro (skirts or loincloths). Somepieces feature seemingly abstract, highly dynamic interlocked curvilinearforms, and others hybrid fish-like or lizard-like creatures, often with humanfaces. Sentani bark pictures are usually only three colors, black, white andred. Black is made from charcoal, white from sea-shell, red from Sentani soil.Sometimes there are natural holes within the bark and the designs.

Tapa, or Bark Cloth, is anonwoven fabric decorated with figurative and abstract designs usually appliedby scratching or by painting. The basic clothlike material, produced from theinner bark, or bast, of certain trees (bark fiber), is made by stripping off the bark,soaking it, and beating it to make the fibers interlace and to reducethickness. The most popular material is the inner bark of the paper mulberrytree, although breadfruit and fig trees are also used. Hand-painted bark clothis limited today primarily to northern , the island of , and parts of .

Spirals symbolize theswirl of itself or so some claim: Official art developers convinced triballeaders to abolish traditional carving rights and restrictions on the use ofmotifs, arguing that such concerns were no longer relevant. Among contemporarybark cloth paintings produced by the Asei islanders of Lake Sentani, one will noticeseveral unusual pieces clearly combining both Asmat and Sentani motifs. TheAsmat motifs were the \'bipane\' (boar tusk nosepiece symbol) and hornbill head(in brown), a crocodile (either Sentani or Asmat), Asmat human figures that transforminto Sentani spiral motifs called \'fouw\' and Sentani fish. Such a fusion isreminiscent of Batik Irian, yet the use of Asmat motifs by Sentani people formonetary gain goes against unspoken rules of conduct among many Papuan artists.

Numerousfish, including swordfish & sea turtles, are often painted on a piece ofbark cloth from Asei or an other local village from Lake Sentani : Fish andother water animals were often portrayed on bark cloth since bark cloth hastraditionally been the clothing of the married woman and since, in the Sentaniregion, it is mostly women who catch fish. was an old sea inlet which had beenseparated from the ocean by a volcanic eruption. This is the reason why seafish such as swordfish occur on the cloths. Traditionally, pieces of bark clothwere painted with patterns such as wavy lines and spirals. The current style,characterized by separate figures that seem to float freely in space, isprobably a development of the 1920s and ‘30s. Women have created bark cloths paintingsfor centuries. The bark is first cleaned by scraping it with a shell.Thereafter, the outer bark is loosened with beaters and then cut away. Thethinner, inner bark is worked with beaters until the cloth has the rightthickness and dimensions. The cloth is soaked in water, wrung out, and thenhung up in the sun to dry. The painting is man\'s work.

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