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Object Number 34-137-70/295
Display Title Piece of tapa cloth
Descriptions
Inventory Description Tapa cloth, rectangular, natural ends, brown center, painted black linear design
Classification
  • Tapa
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Tonga
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Tonga / <State> / Niaufo'ou (Tin Can Island)
Dimensions Overall: 193.04 x 381 cm (76 x 150 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 34-137-70/295; L52/2 53
Provenance
Collector Weld Arnold (1931 - October 24, 1934)
Donor Weld Arnold (October 24, 1934)

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