Fine barkcloth register

Ponga Record

Dark ink over aged tan

c.1880 line study

Names held in ink webs

Thin brown lines gather around medallions, crossing old bark ground like remembered family paths.

Alofi · Mutalau · Hakupu
PONGA

Genealogy as surface

Inscribed places sit between radiating circles, so the cloth reads as record and ornament at once.

beaten bark ground
single pot of brown ink
concentric freehand bands
fine bordered panels
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