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Object Number 990-12-70/5767
Display Title Bark cloth panel
Descriptions
Object Description Bark cloth panel. Siapo Vala. Medium-weight cloth, two to three layers with grain opposite face and rear. Overall design rubbed over carved wooden design tablet with freehand overpainting of leaf and heart motifs; three raw/natural edges and one cut edge. Design is similar to siapo collected in 1958 and featured in Neich, 1998, pg 39.
Inventory Description Tapa, rectangular, brown painted leaf and heart motifs
Classification
  • Tapa
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Samoa
Dimensions Overall: 163.83 x 129.54 cm (64 1/2 x 51 in.)
Quantity 1
Provenance
Donor Richard Brakeley Hutchins (9/7/90)

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