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Title: | Tapa Cloths and Beaters: Tradition, Innovation and the Agency of the Bounty Women in Shaping a New Culture on Pitcairn Island from 1790 to 1850 | Contributor(s): | Reynolds-Barff, Pauline (author) | Publication Date: | 2016 | DOI: | 10.1080/00404969.2016.1211435 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/19587 | Abstract: | This article examines the tapa cloths made by the women associated with the Bounty, who sailed to Pitcairn Island with the Bounty mutineers to create a new society and culture. Traditional literature reveals a male-dominated narrative, which ignores any female agency in the Bounty-Pitcairn story, and merely objectifies them. The tapa cloths the women produced reveal much about their origins and their efforts to maintain the traditions of their homelands while initiating innovative designs that appear to have provided a sense of unique identity in the Anglo-Polynesian children of the Polynesian women and their European husbands. Given their objectification in the generally accepted historical narrative, it is ironic that the women reveal themselves through the objects that they made. By compiling data about the tapa cloths (kind of cloth, plants used, techniques, colour and patterning, quality), details of tradition and innovation emerge and reveal much about these women and the knowledge they passed down the generations through their daughters. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Textile History, 47(2), p. 190-207 | Publisher: | Routledge | Place of Publication: | United Kingdom | ISSN: | 1743-2952 0040-4969 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 210313 Pacific History (excl. New Zealand and Maori) 200205 Culture, Gender, Sexuality 210204 Museum Studies |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 451304 Pacific Peoples cultural history | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 950306 Conserving Pacific Peoples Heritage | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 211201 Conserving Pacific Peoples heritage and culture | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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