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Object Number 999-18-70/5833
Display Title Barkcloth, tapa cloth, Samoan siapo
Descriptions
Object Description Tapa cloth. Siapo tasina Cloth is very embrittled/fragile. Cloth appears to be of one or two medium-weight layers. Overall design, rubbed over a design tablet with a reddish brown paint; free-hand overpainting in a resinous brown.
Inventory Description Tapa, rectangular with brown and black geometric designs on buff, degraded
Classification
  • Tapa
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
Dimensions Overall: 110 x 160 cm (43 5/16 x 63 in.)
Quantity 10
Label on object 999-18-70/5833

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