No children under the age of 8 are allowed in the dog park at any time. You and your dog(s) must have a permit to enter NOLA City Bark dog park. You can also reach Zachary Taylor Drive from Wisner Dr. The dog park is across Diagonal Drive from Popp Fountain. Zachary Taylor is the road that runs between Popp Fountain and I-610. Go under the I-610 overpass and take an immediate right turn on Zachary Taylor Drive. NOLA City Bark is bounded by Zachary Taylor, Diagonal, and Magnolia drives.įrom City Park Avenue, take Marconi Drive past Tad Gormley Stadium. *Exception: Dog Park is closed on Tuesdays until 1pm for weekly maintenance. Really evocative.Get your permit here! Get your tourist permit here! Shining with coconut oil, then they've had that, too. On the body of a dancer that is themselves Scented coconut oil, or they've been worn And where pieces haveīeen specially prepared with coconut oil, sometimes Pigments have got the most extraordinarily earthy sense to them. The other fun thing would be to get a sense of what the smell is like, because some of these I wish weĬould take it out of the case and hear what that sounds like. Is used only to describe the noise that is made byĪ new piece of bark cloth when it's being worn. And Tonga, for example, which is not too far from these islands, there is a special word that There's a kind of heavy sound when someone is dancing Incredible sense of volume when they're worn on the body. Is that they are quite stiff and they do create an So if we take a lookĪnd profile at the sash, which is known as the lafi, you can see that it's quite thick and it would have been fairly stiff. It would have taken someone an awfully long time to do, definitely a prestigious garment and something to wear with When we see regular patterning like this, it's easy to immediately jump to this is made on a machine, but there are small irregularities. Very intricate patterns based on a grid where some of the squares have been filled inįorming these diagonals. But when the larger pieces are made, they're made by groups of women who work collectively to produceĮxtraordinarily big pieces. Here, what we're looking at are two pieces that have probably been You actually end up with strips and these strips are pieced together using a tuberous vegetable, in this case, probably arrowroot, again, another introduction to this area. So when we're talking aboutīeating the inner bark in order to make these pieces, obviously we're not going to end up with a piece large enough There is a darker pigment that is made by burning the nuts of the candlenut tree. So we have a beautiful brown pigment that is made from a tree called koka. And in the center, richlyĭecorated intricate pattern that has been created freehand using a sharpened coconut-frond midrib. What you can see around the salatasi, which is the beautiful waist cloth, is a border of painted Pieces have been entirely decorated with a freehand technique. The two pieces that we're looking at are beautifully hand-painted. So there're lots of ways of creating the patterns Is beaten into the bark cloth that we're looking at. Inner bark is peeled away from the harder external bark. Their bark is peeled from them in a strip. So a paper mulberry, which in the Pacific can only be propagated usingĪ tuber propagation method. They brought with them the plant that they would grow into tall trees and use to make the mallets and anvils that they use to beat bark into cloth. Uncover the dark secrets of a twisted family. Experiment with the different items to try and survive. Race against time to save your family and yourself. They also brought with them the plants that they use to make the dyes. Explore a house that changes and reacts to your actions in real-time. The paper mulberry plant, which is the actual material itself. With them to the islands most of the plants that they To the ancestors of the people who we now recognize as Pacific Islanders, because those ancestors brought In fact, we know that it was already incredibly important Made of bark cloth, an important material in So in the Pacific Islands, you have woven textiles. And then we have this wonderful long sash, one draped over the shoulderĪnd secured at the waist point. So we have a beautiful waist cloth that would have been bundled up and secured around the waist. What we're looking at is a dance costume probably worn by a man. We're looking at two pieces that are from the WallisĪnd Futuna Island group. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, looking at some beautiful