1. These early garments were made of native tapa, or bark cloth . 2. The book includes discussions of the pre-historic precursors to paper, including Philippine bark cloth . 3. Cleaning leather presents difficulties, and bark cloth ( tapa ) cannot be washed without dissolving it. 4. Flaherty tapa, an organic material of bark cloth . 5. They wear red laplaps now as there are not many mals or bark cloth coverings to wear. 6. It's midcentury lake-chic, with bark cloth pillows, vintage camp photos they found at flea markets, patchwork quilts. 7. All that they ever know of her is the voice heard behind the curtain of a bark cloth . 8. A few of the significant collections include Parthenon frieze casts, Merovingian bronzes, Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets, and Amazonian bark cloth . 9. When chanters mentioned her name, listeners removed their kapa ( bark cloth ) garments above the waist in deference. 10. In the beginning, Hawaiians utilized traditional Polynesian designs and native tapa _ or bark cloth _ for their shirts.