Any help with this tribal painting

if anyone can help with this painting it is appreciated. The name Fane T. Is on the back. On very thick paper seems hand made almost like leather. Dark black ink and brown may be dry blood not positive though. Thank you for any time

 

I suspect it's tapa cloth. Someone more knowledgable will along in a bit to tell you more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapa_cloth

Debora

 

Nothing more to add, @Debora nailed it. Tapa.

 

Ah... But someone here is sure to know where in the Pacific it's from.

Debora

 

From reading just 10 min there seems there is a lot to add lol

 

Thanks for the comments

 

This is a stab in the dark, but I noticed the word Fane on the back. I think that may be a Tongan name.
https://www.stelizabeth720.org/stained-glass--icons.html#/

 

Yes Fane T. Is on the back

 

Yes, tapa. @Taupou will probably be able to say where it is from.

 

It is a tapa cloth, and it's from Fiji.

No blood involved! The cloth itself it made by beating the inner bark of the paper mulberry tree/shrub, and gluing them together to make a type of felted fabric. In most places, the black dye is made from burned nuts of the candlenut tree, the brown may be made from the candlenut tree bark. But all use natural local materials to produce the tapa cloth.

Fiji tapa is made with stencils, other island nations use carved pattern boards for the designs, or paint them freehand.