South Pacific
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Living Heritage
04
A cloth survives — the hands do not.
Active tapa-beating practitioners, Marquesas Islands · 1880–2024
1,600
1,200
800
400
0
1,450
820
340
74
12
1880
1920
1960
2000
2024
Source: Bishop Museum Pacific ethnography census, 2023
Kahu
· 04
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