Figure 28.—Painted tapa patterns. a, Mauke: white cloth painted with black bars, black triangles in pairs with apices meeting giving hour-glass appearance and internally blaked with thin parallel lines, and zigzag bars formed by crossing black lines; horizontal bars (1) and triangles (1) painted yellow; rectangles (2) and triangles (2) in red (Bishop Mus., Bloxam ms.). b, shows carved heads (1) and tapa bundle with zigzag pattern (2) at one end and double rows of black lozenges separated by two thin lins (3) at other end (British Mus., L.M.S. coll.). c, carved god (1) with bundle of white tapa (2) painted with wide bars with serrated edges (W. O. Oldman coll., (424) d, coiled coir headdress (1) with tapa cloth (2) painted with wide black bars with serrated edges similar to c (British Mus., L.M.S. coll.). e, tiputa garment from Mangaia with lozenge pattern in black as drawn by Edge-Partington (British Mus.).