Siapo is the Samoan word for a fine cloth made from the bark of the Paper ... The inner-bark (known at this raw stage as tapa) is soaked and softened in water. When it's become slightly pulpy ...

Hayward has looked after the tapa cloth for 51 years. Kirk received it at the South Pacific forum in Apia, Samoa, in 1973. "I never actually saw it presented to him. It was probably in one of the ...