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Object Number 36-68-70/341
Display Title Pieces of tapa cloth
Descriptions
Object Description Two small sections cut from a larger tapa cloth; appear likely from Tonga. One section is 50 cm x 198 cm long with 14 cm turned under; the other is 42 cm x 207 cm. The two narrow long cut sections are cut from a much larger medium-weight cloth, primarily off-white with a few narrow lines or brush strokes in a matte red-brown paint. Two sheets pasted; face side grain in lengthwise with the rear or lower sheet cross-grain. Each cloth has one cut edge, one rough/uneven edge (side of the larger cloth) and two folded over ends that have been adhered/glued (not original manufacture). The edges of the turned ends are rough/uneven as originally beaten. Red orange paint at one end 36-68-70/341
Inventory Description Tapa, off-white with brown lines
Classification
  • Tapa
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Tonga?
Additional Geographic Terms Polynesia
Dimensions Overall: 202 x 50 cm (79 1/2 x 19 11/16 in.)
Quantity 2
Label on object 36-68-70/341
Provenance
Donor Miss Lilias D. Page (June 4, 1936)

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