Vintage Polynesian Bark Paper XL with Orange / Brown Geometric Design

Note: The dye on this piece is brown in some lighting, orange in another. The range captured on camera does not quite capture its colors.
 
We believe this flexible, thick heft kapa* paper was probably collected in Hawaii in the 1960s or 1970s when our parents visited the island. We cannot however confirm such as we could not find an identical pattern online.
 
Bark paper is made by hand from tree bark from mulberry, nettle, or fig trees, and pounded into flat sheets. Bark cloth meanwhile is made by beating the bark to soften and fuse the fibers, resulting in a soft textile like piece. 
 
Decoration was traditionally done using natural plant dyes and earth pigments. Brown dye was extracted from the bark of the Blood Tree, red from the Lipstick Tree’s seeds mixed with the aforementioned, yellow dye from turmeric roots, block from the soot of burned candlenut mixed with brown dye. 
 
* Bark cloth or paper is called kapa in Hawaii, tapa in Tonga and the Cook Islands, siapo in Samoa, olubugo in Uganda and by other names elsewhere in the world. It predates weaving, the bark cloth one of the earliest textiles.
 
Many of these are available for sale online, most much more complex, ranging in price from $ 100-650 at the time of our research. Ours however has lived a life.
 
As shown in photos, this piece has some spots where one layer of bark has worn or torn off, and several wrinkles within the cloth from the creative process. It also appears faded in some areas although these areas regain color in the shade…
 
The bark was previously stored rolled but clearly the roll got smooshed, as our mother would say, at some point so there are creases/fold marks, but they could probably be worked out.
 
This piece is particularly large. It would best be used as a wall hanging but could also be used as a tablecloth!
 
H 70” x 38”