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Object Number 19-39-70/D1272
Display Title Tapa cloth
Descriptions
Object Description Tapa cloth. See conservation report.
Inventory Description Tapa, thin cloth, dark brown pigment on natural tan, zoomorphic motifs resembling insects, linear border
Classification
  • Tapa
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Samoa
Dimensions Overall: 517 × 63.5 × 0.2 cm (203 9/16 × 25 × 1/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object D1272 ; 45.1270 / Cambridge
Provenance
Donor Mrs. G. Peabody Gardner (1919)

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