Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Tapa \Ta"pa\, n.
   A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner
   bark of the paper mulberry; -- sometimes called also {kapa}.

Source : WordNet®

tapa
     n 1: thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus
          [syn: {tappa}]
     2: a paperlike cloth made in the South Pacific by pounding tapa
        bark [syn: {tappa}]