{"id":44238,"date":"2022-05-07T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T21:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/07\/our-designs-are-stolen-the-fight-to-keep-sacred-tapa-in-the-hands-of-pngs-oro-people"},"modified":"2022-05-07T06:00:13","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T21:00:13","slug":"our-designs-are-stolen-the-fight-to-keep-sacred-tapa-in-the-hands-of-pngs-oro-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44238","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Our designs are stolen\u2019: the fight to keep sacred tapa in the hands of PNG\u2019s Oro people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tapa, a tattooed fabric, has been worn in Papua New Guinea for centuries but there are concerns it has been commercialised<\/p>\n<p>When Papua New Guinean fashion designer Yaku Ninich wanted to use tapa designs inspired by those of her grandmother, in her work, she first had to ask her mother for permission.<\/p>\n<p>Ninich, who is based in the US, but has roots in both Oro and Morobe provinces says that not everyone respects the connection between these ancient designs and the Oro people.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/07\/our-designs-are-stolen-the-fight-to-keep-sacred-tapa-in-the-hands-of-pngs-oro-people\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tapa, a tattooed fabric, has been worn in Papua New Guinea for centuries but there are concerns it has been commercialisedWhen Papua New Guinean fashion designer Yaku Ninich wanted to use tapa designs inspired by those of her grandmother, in her work, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,874,267,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44239,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44238\/revisions\/44239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}