Show Polynesia Cloth Exhibit Set At Temple Square A special exhibit of Poly designed tapa cloths has been set up in the Temple Square Museum of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints The display of native craUs manship will continue until October 26 according to the museum curator Tapa cloths are arc fashioned from from the inner bark of such trees as the Paper Mulberry The bark Is stripped from the trees soaked in water for seve sev several eral days and then hammered Into thin sheets with a wood en mallet Native designs are then I worked into the cloth and painted in reds browns yel yel- yel yellows lows and blacks Many of the tapa cloths inthe in inthe the exhibit date back to the Century and the first one collected by the museum museum was brought back from Sam oa In 1893 by a Mormon mis y r In the Islands the natives use tapa cloth for clothing bedding draperies and rugs The special exhibit will be beset beset set up on the mezzanine of the museum adjacent to the cases containing permanent scan sian- exhibits |