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Object Number
69-21-70/1492
Display Title
Tiputa (bark cloth poncho) of a chief's daughter
Descriptions
Indigenous Term
Tiputa
Object Description
Dress of chief's daughter. Rectangular tabord-style barkcloth garment (tiputu); open sides with wide, pinked edged fringe; rounded neck opening bound with a plain weave printed cellulosic fabric strip (in two pieces), back-stitched in place with a minimally processed vegetable fiber sewing strand. The lower edges of the garment are pinked in small triangular points. (Ref: Kooijman 1972 pp 289-93 discusses tiputus and this one and indicates that it is likely from Niue.) Additional object description under conservation.
Inventory Description
Dress, tapa, buff with brown floral and linear design, serrated fringe edges
Classification
- Dress
Department
Ethnographic
Date
before 1869
Culture
- Nieu
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
New Zealand
/
<State>
/
Niue
Additional Geographic Terms
Cook Islands
Dimensions
Overall: 198 x 45 cm (77 15/16 x 17 11/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
69-21-70/1492
Credit Line
Gift of the Boston Society of Natural History, 1869.
Provenance
Donor
Donated by
Boston Society of Natural History
(1869)
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