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Pt. 1. Encounters: Awakening European minds
European impressions
The quest for barkcloth names
The ancestry of barkcloth
2. Creating barkcloth
Story of a tree
Substance of color
Rubbing boards
Sticky stuff
Supersizing it
Working together
3. Collecting barkcloth
Enticing cloth
Barkcloth appropriations - the Alexander Shaw books
"Spanish Lake"
Lost collections?
Decreasing interest
Beachcombers, merchants, and whalers
Missionaries
Collecting souvenirs.
Pt. 2. Creativity: Creativity in shapes and forms
Tongan-style barkcloth
Barkcloth design through time
Barkcloth circulation
Imagining and forging the tongan land
Between the cross and the cloth
Before missionary arrival
Missionary failure and uncertainties, 1797-1827
Triumphant Christianity, 1828-1860
"Civilizing mission," gender, industriousness and economic policies
Creating beautiful and moral bodies
Missionary attitudes and an east-west divide
Wesleyan and Marist competition
Barkcloth-a way of being in the world.
Pt. 3. Female agency
Capturing the "Female essence"?
Enveloped by ngatu
Defining koloa
Value of koloa
Are koloa gendered?
A feast for the senses
A modern dynast of royals
Royal ceremonies-a wedding, two funerals, and a coronation
Characteristics of barkcloth
Conflated sensations
Conclusion- encounters, creativity, and female agency
Encounters-surprising and vital occurrences
Creativity-ingenious imagination
Female agency-prestigious mediation.
European impressions
The quest for barkcloth names
The ancestry of barkcloth
2. Creating barkcloth
Story of a tree
Substance of color
Rubbing boards
Sticky stuff
Supersizing it
Working together
3. Collecting barkcloth
Enticing cloth
Barkcloth appropriations - the Alexander Shaw books
"Spanish Lake"
Lost collections?
Decreasing interest
Beachcombers, merchants, and whalers
Missionaries
Collecting souvenirs.
Pt. 2. Creativity: Creativity in shapes and forms
Tongan-style barkcloth
Barkcloth design through time
Barkcloth circulation
Imagining and forging the tongan land
Between the cross and the cloth
Before missionary arrival
Missionary failure and uncertainties, 1797-1827
Triumphant Christianity, 1828-1860
"Civilizing mission," gender, industriousness and economic policies
Creating beautiful and moral bodies
Missionary attitudes and an east-west divide
Wesleyan and Marist competition
Barkcloth-a way of being in the world.
Pt. 3. Female agency
Capturing the "Female essence"?
Enveloped by ngatu
Defining koloa
Value of koloa
Are koloa gendered?
A feast for the senses
A modern dynast of royals
Royal ceremonies-a wedding, two funerals, and a coronation
Characteristics of barkcloth
Conflated sensations
Conclusion- encounters, creativity, and female agency
Encounters-surprising and vital occurrences
Creativity-ingenious imagination
Female agency-prestigious mediation.