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Object Number 999-18-70/5841
Display Title Barkcloth, tapa cloth, Samoan siapo
Descriptions
Indigenous Term Siapo tasina
Object Description Siapo tasina. Cloth is severely embrittled and damaged; dimension are approximate. Medium-weight cloth, two layers, pasted with overlapping joins. Decorated on one side, rubbed over a design tablet in a medium red-brown with freehand overpainting in a glossy black paint.
Inventory Description Tapa, black linear designs
Classification
  • Tapa
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Samoa
Dimensions Overall: 120 x 225 cm (47 1/4 x 88 9/16 in.)
Quantity 1

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