In the manufacture of the beautiful white tappa generally worn on the Marquesan Islands, the preliminary operation consists in gathering a certain quantity of the young branches of the cloth-tree.
In a moment the tappa was distended by the breeze--the long brown tresses of Fayaway streamed in the air--and the canoe glided rapidly through the water, and shot towards the shore.
These marks produce the corduroy sort of stripes discernible in the tappa in its finished state.
The person so employed marks the lapse of time by the number of nuts consumed, which is easily learned by counting the bits of tappa distributed at regular intervals along the string.
But the art of printing the tappa is unknown upon the Marquesan Islands.
When the operation last described has been concluded, the new-made tappa is spread out on the grass to bleach and dry, and soon becomes of a dazzling whiteness.
After a few moments Kolory brings forth his doll again, and while arraying it very carefully in the tappa and red cloth, alternately fondles and chides it.
He wore a Manilla hat and a sort of tappa morning gown, sufficiently loose and negligent to show the verse of a song tattooed upon his chest, and a variety of spirited cuts by native artists in other parts of his body.
In a moment the tappa was distended by the breeze—the long brown tresses of Fayaway streamed in the air—and the canoe glided rapidly through the water, and shot towards the shore.
After a few moments Kolory brings forth his doll again, and, while arraying it very carefully in the tappa and red cloth, alternately fondles and chides it.
He wore a Manilla hat, and a sort of tappa morning gown, sufficiently loose and negligent to show the verse of a song tattooed upon his chest, and a variety of spirited cuts by native artists in other parts of his body.
These marks produce the corduroy sort of stripes descernible in the tappa in its finished state.
Then, whilst I steered, Manaia tied strips of tappa around Selema's leg so as to stay the bleeding.
Life is short; and, behold, this piece of SIAPO [The tappa cloth of the South Seas, made from the bark of the paper mulberry.
I had once been present at a scene of this kind, without the slightest possibility of successful interference, when a native woman had been strangled; her own son, pulling at one end of the tappa which encircled his mother's neck.
Garments too, are sometimes made from it, though for that purpose tappa is preferred.
Meantime Arthur hastened over to the islet, and released our companions from the ligatures of tappa which confined their limbs.
A circumstance, which accounted for the fact, that many of the class above alluded to, were considered capital judges of tappa and tailoring.
Who would suppose she had ever beat tappa for a living?
The interior of the great church on Sunday was a fine sight, being filled with from two to three hundred natives, all decked out in feathers, shell ornaments, gay tappa cloth, and vivid flowers.
The women here wore strips of tappa cloth from waist to knee, instead of the grass skirts of the more eastern tribes, and the houses were of a finer and larger type.
And still her soul struggled as she fearfully watched for that which her eyes had surely seen; then, once again, the tappa curtains that separated her chamber from the door that led straight to the jungle outside seemed to divide softly.
Others wore tappa gowns, a few some remnant of European clothing, such as cast-off skirts, blouses, bodices and stockings.
The phantom woman crawled slowly beneath the tappa curtain as the white girl watched.
Then the silence returned, but to her surprise the tappa curtains of her little chamber were suddenly thrown aside, and a strange-looking native woman stood before her.
At last the visitant lifted her beautiful shadowy head, and began slowly to rise to her feet as the tappa curtain fell softly.
They were very simple; the half of a green melon, about one third full of cocoa-nut oil, and a wick of twisted tappa floating on the surface.
Spread upon this was a single, fine mat, with a roll of dried ferns for a pillow, and a strip of whitetappa for a sheet.
We withdrew; making a profound inclination as we disappeared behind the tappa arras.
Professors in large practice lived in spacious houses, divided by screens of tappa into numerous little apartments, where subjects were waited upon in private.
Tonoi obtained sufficient coarse brown tappa to make a short mantle of this description; and in five minutes the doctor was equipped.
To my surprise, the manufacture oftappa was going on in several buildings.
Everybody, too, ride about in coaches, bigger than hers; and wear fine tappa every day.
It seemed to have been used as a "tappa herree," or house for making the native cloth.
Across one broad shoulder there hung a small, snowy-white poncho or cape, made of fine tappa cloth, and round his wrists and ankles were circlets of pearl shell, enclosed in a netting of black coir cinnet.
Only once had he seen her; but since then he had sent over many canoes laden with presents, such as hogs and turtle, and great bunches of plantains, and fine tappa cloth for her acceptance.
The head-gardener wore a loin-cloth of tappaand a white evening-dress waistcoat, the latter being the gift of Dr Soames Pryce.
We were, however, most courteously received by his handsome wife Viti, who besides her tappa lava-lava wore a kind of double bib or sleeveless jumper falling to the waist before and behind, with a hole in the middle for her head to go through.
Fishing one day a week and cultivating a few yams and taros on another day would supply their food, and the women made tappa for their few garments out of the bark of trees.
She lay down at the bottom with a tappa cloth covering her from the sun.
However, in this case a large tappa curtain was let down in the centre; the King and his warriors slept on one side, and the other formed the apartment of Mrs. Strong and myself.
Then I know a refugee from Segusin who is a clerk at the headquarters of Tappa di Vittorio.
They told me it was an exceptional passport and that it had been confirmed by the command at Tappa di Vittorio, at Portogruro and at Torre di Mosto and that many persons had already made use of it without ever having had any trouble.
At the headquarters of Tappa di Vittorio a notice had been posted saying, "Any civilian found damaging the telephone lines will be at once taken before a firing squad.
The Command at Tappa di Vittorio has been enlarged to cover all the region between the Ponte della Priula and Vidor and the aforementioned city is now considered as a retrovia in case of a possible early action.
He was courteous, however, directing a tappa cloth to be spread for me.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tappa" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
