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Object Number
36-45-70/336
Display Title
Piece of brown tapa cloth
Descriptions
Object Description
Decorated tapa cloth. Siapo vala? Thin, rectangular cloth made of uniformally pounded off-white inner bark fibers. The cloth is composed of two sheets; in several locations there are more layers. The sheets are overlapped, pasted, pounded together an then cut. The outer sheets/ layers have perpendicular grain directions. One surface of the cloth is decorated, produced by rubbing on a design tablet and by free hand. The mat red/brown decoration obtained by the design tablet is muttled and unclear on the painted surface; a pattern can be detected on the inderside as angular geometric patterns made up of many lines. A network of squares, rectangles with diagonal lines and circles are handpainted in black-brown. There are no visble beater patterns.
Identifying numbers: Peabody Museum number in red appears on the verso, in a corner.
Inventory Description
Tapa fragment, buff with brown linear and circle design, worn, fragile
Classification
- Tapa
Department
Ethnographic
Date
before 1909
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Samoa
Materials
Tapa, Pigment, Inner bark fiber
Dimensions
Overall: 176 x 99 cm (69 5/16 x 39 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
36-45-70/336
Provenance
Collector
Dr. Roland Burrage Dixon
(1909)
Donor
Dr. Alfred M. Tozzer
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