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Object Number
2000.16.3
Display Title
Tapa
Descriptions
Object Description
Tapa. The cloth has the appearance of a Saman produced cloth with Tongan and Samoan imagery and with some techniques (corded pattern) typical of Tongan cloths. Medium-weight two layer cloth with face side grain parallel to length and rear grain running widthwise. Four cut edges, hand-painted in a dark-brown resinous paint typical of Samoan cloths. The overall design was rubbed over a design tablet (upeti?) and appears with both corded and leaf motifs, known as a siapo tasina in Samoa.
Inventory Description
Tapa cloth, rectangular, painted geometric designs
Classification
- Tapa
Department
Ethnographic
Date
19th century
Culture
- Tonga
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Samoa?
Oceania / Tonga
Oceania / Tonga
Dimensions
Overall: 181.61 x 160.02 cm (71 1/2 x 63 in.)
Quantity
1
Credit Line
Gift of Blair F. Baldwin, Class of 2002
Provenance
Collector
Harris Fahnestock
(1890's)
Donor
Blair F. Baldwin
(May 23, 2000)
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| PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience | SHARE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000.16.1 | Tapa |
Tapa
|
Tonga?
Samoa? | |
| 967-32-70/4634 | Tapa |
Tapa
|
Tonga
| |
| 2000.16.2 | Tapa |
Tapa
|
Tonga?
Samoa? | |
| 98-8-70/51703 | Large tapa curtain |
Tapa
|
Naroi
Moala | |
| 2002.18.1 | Tapa |
Tapa
|
Tonga
| |
| 88-51-70/51524 | Tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Samoa
Tonga | |
| 56-5-70/3773 | Large piece of tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Samoa
| |
| 99-15-70/53901 | Tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Samoa
| |
| 990-12-70/5772 | Bark cloth cut section |
Tapa
|
Samoa
| |
| 96-25-70/49498.2 | Tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Samoa
| |
| 11-2-70/83937 | Tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Taveuni
| |
| 11-2-70/83936 | Tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Kambara
|