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Object Number
974-5-70/5434
Display Title
Cut section of tapa
Descriptions
Indigenous Term
Tapa or Kapa
Object Description
Medium to medium-heavy tapa cloth with hand-painted and hand-stamped motifs in horizontal bands across width. Grain direction lengthwise. Use of bast fiber stitching as decorative element in pattern, and on borders, is unusual. Shape of cloth and surface decoration suggests Melanesian (Solomon Islands?) or West Polynesian manufacture.
Inventory Description
Tapa cloth, rectangular, painted and stamped linear designs
Classification
- Tapa
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Philippines
Dimensions
Overall: 146 x 84 cm (57 1/2 x 33 1/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Provenance
Provenance
Unknown
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| PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience | SHARE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 94-10-70/48375 | Kapa |
Tapa
|
Hawaii County
| |
| 67-9-70/122 | Tapa |
Tapa
|
Hawaii
| |
| 973-24-70/5365 | Tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Samoa?
| |
| 67-9-70/118 | Decorated kapa fragment |
Tapa
|
Hawaii
| |
| 48-49-70/2922 | Piece of tapa - white with brown designs |
Felted
|
Samoa
| |
| 90-17-70/48435.7 | Decorated tapa fragment |
Tapa
|
Hawaii
| |
| 10-28-70/76087 | Tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Samoa
Fiji | |
| 18-2-70/D1102 | Tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Samoa?
| |
| 2000.16.3 | Tapa |
Tapa
|
Samoa?
Tonga | |
| 61-8-70/3939 | Tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Samoa
| |
| 973-24-70/5362 | Tapa cloth, border at narrow ends suggests picket fence, church and tree motifs. |
Tapa
|
Tonga?
Fiji? | |
| 11-2-70/83931 | Tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Samoa
|