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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 June 1973Vol. 44, No. 6

Pacific Islands Monthly

pp. 1-5 · Read in the full issue

News Magazine Of The South Pacific

June, 1973

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She's printing tapa designs on fabric at R. F. Rankin's Island Styles work shop just outside of Apia, Western Samoa. The workshop produces more than 40 different patterns on hundreds of yards of material every day, much of which is exported. All the designs are based on traditional motifs.