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Object Number
29-63-70/D3340B
Display Title
Tapa cloth
Descriptions
Object Description
Tapa cloth. Siapo tasina.
Cloth is very deteriorated; in storage folded 14"x21" package in a box with D3340a and D3340c.
Cloth appears to be one or two layers, medium-weight. Overall decoration, rubbed from a design tablet in a matte reddish-brown; overpainted with resinous brown-black paint.
Inventory Description
Tapa, folded, buff, brown and black linear pigmented designs, torn, fragmented
Classification
- Tapa
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Samoa
Materials
Tapa, Pigment
Dimensions
Overall: 53.5 x 40.4 x 3 cm (21 1/16 x 15 7/8 x 1 3/16 in.)
Quantity
5
Label on object
29-63-70/D3340b
Provenance
Collector
E. Goodhue
Donor
Donated by
George Ralph Osborne
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| |
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Tapa
|
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| |
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Tapa
|
Pago Pago
| |
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Tapa
|
Samoa
| |
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Tapa
|
Samoa
| |
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Tapa
|
Oceania
| |
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Tapa
|
Samoa
| |
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Tapa
|
Tonga
| |
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Tapa
|
Samoa
| |
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Tapa
|
Samoa
| |
| 92-4-70/48378.3 | Tapa cloth sash of King's daughter |
Tapa
|
Samoa
| |
| 2000.16.3 | Tapa |
Tapa
|
Samoa?
Tonga |