Comments on: Impressive Tongan tapa – an installation challenge.

By: pamelalovis

pamelalovis — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:13:23 +0000

Kia ora Belinda
Thanks for your comment and interest. If you’d like to send an email to our Pacific curator Sean Mallon on mail@tepapa.govt.nz he can give you some more information about your tapa. Kind regards, Pamela.

By: Belinda Floyd

Belinda Floyd — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:53:04 +0000

I also have a tapa cloth, It was given to my parents in 1980 by the Tongan queen who visited Rotorua around that time , would it be possible to send a photo of the cloth to get more information about it. It has the words Ko Kaulani, a crown symbol and a bird under three stars.

By: Loketi Niua Latu

Loketi Niua Latu — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 11:21:35 +0000

Beautiful way to install & exhibit Tongan tapa!

By: Pamela

Pamela — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 03:21:54 +0000

Dear Gordon
Thank you very much for sharing this interesting information about your tapa from Queen Elizabeth’s visit to Queen Salote in 1953.

I’m sure our curator, Sean Mallon, will be very interested to know more about this, and I will ask him to respond to you.

Best wishes
Pamela

By: gordon morse

gordon morse — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:44:26 +0000

I have a tapa from the visit of queen elizabert to queen salote in dec. 19 to 20, 1953, that is 15 feet high by 100 feet long made by 60 tongan ladies. Also photos of the queen’s visit of the ‘royal tour” written and photographed by neil ferrwr of the queens walking on my tapa to the “great feast house” on the tapa which is being held to the ground by the 60 ladies. The tapa was given to me for favors rendered to salote’s family. It is a white tapa with light and dark brown markings pf royal sympols and the date of the visit, among other tongan and british items. My brother-in-law also has a tapa identical to yours on youy web site.