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Object Number
973-24-70/5369
Display Title
Undecorated light brown tapa cloth, wavy texture (made by pounding with square b
Descriptions
Indigenous Term
Tapa or Kapa
Object Description
Undecorated light brown tapa cloth, wavy texture (made by pounding with square beaters) 15 x 34"
Inventory Description
Tapa, brown with traces of black, rectangular, embossed linear pattern
Classification
- Tapa
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Hawaiian
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
United States
/
Hawaii
Dimensions
Overall: 63 x 88 cm (24 13/16 x 34 5/8 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
973-24-70/5369
Provenance
Collector
Mr. Eliot Elisofon
Donor
Estate of Eliot Elisofon
(June 1973)
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Tapa
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Hawaii
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| 80-24-70/23087.2 | Tapa |
Tapa
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Hawaii
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| 999-18-70/5840 | Tapa cloth |
Tapa
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Hawaii
| |
| 67-9-70/122 | Tapa |
Tapa
|
Hawaii
| |
| 56-41-70/3800.2 | Piece of red tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Papeete
| |
| 90-17-70/48433.6 | Tapa |
Tapa
|
Hawaii
| |
| 67-9-70/120 | Fine tapa fragment |
Tapa
|
Hawaii
| |
| 85-7-70/37625 | Tapa |
Tapa
|
Honolulu County
| |
| 77-37-70/11692 | Tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Pitcairn Island
| |
| 44-20-70/2266 | Round piece of tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Samoa
| |
| 974-21-70/5430B | Fragment of tapa cloth, dark and light brown pattern, 13.5 in. l. x 9 1/4" w. |
Tapa
|
Samoa?
Tonga? | |
| 12-35-70/84186 | Hand-painted circular tapa cloth, Siapo mamanu |
Tapa
|
Tutuila Island
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