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Orange Tapa Flower Earrings

$45.00 NZD

The Orange Tapa Flower Earrings by Tania Tupu are the next best thing to wearing a fresh island flower above your ear.

 

Tania designed the lovely Samoan Siapo (tapa Cloth) flower motif after she was given a flower from the Rev Folasa Tupu Samoa on arrival to Falelima village on the southwest corner of Savai'i in Samoa - home to where the Tupu name comes from.

 

  • Handcrafted oval shaped earrings with tapa flower design
  • Earrings measure approximately 1.8cm x 0.8cm
  • Sterling silver hooks

 

Tania Tupu, Ngāti Porou, is a jewellery designer and maker of contemporary Māori and Pacific-inspired adornment based in Titahi Bay, Porirua. A talented businesswoman, Tania has also operated retail stores in Raglan and Nelson, worked for The Great War Exhibition and is currently the General Manager of Te Papa Stores at New Zealand's National Museum. 

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