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Object Number
36-45-70/335
Display Title
Long piece of black and white tapa cloth
Descriptions
Object Description
Long piece of black and white tapa cloth. The narrow light-weight cloth of two layers is painted on one side overall in a matted red brown and slightly glossy black pigment/dye; cloth known as masi bolabola. Side edges have typical Fijian fine fringes with top and bottom edges scallop cut. Additional object description notes under conservation.
Inventory Description
Tapa, rectangular, fringed edges, black and brown geometric designs
Classification
- Tapa
Department
Ethnographic
Date
before 1909
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Fiji
Materials
Tapa, Beaten inner bark fiber, Pigment
Dimensions
Overall: 553.7211 × 101.6002 cm (218 × 40 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
36-45-70/335
Provenance
Collector
Dr. Roland Burrage Dixon
(1909)
Donor
Dr. Alfred M. Tozzer
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