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Object Number
36-75-70/344
Display Title
Tapa cloth with black, white and light tan design
Descriptions
Object Description
Tapa cloth. Siapo mamanu with black, white and light tan(yellow?) design
Cloth is very fragile; not able to be measured due to deteriorated state.
Cloth appears to be one or two medium-weight layers. Overall design, free-hand painting in a matte yellow (turmeric?) dye/pigment and a resionous brown black. Linear pattern with triangles. There may be an underpainting in the black regions (matte reddish-brown).
Inventory Description
Tapa, folded, buff, black and yellow geometric pigmented design, burnt
Classification
- Tapa
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Samoa
Materials
Tapa, Pigment
Dimensions
Overall: 61 x 40.2 x 2 cm (24 x 15 13/16 x 13/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
36-75-70/344
Provenance
Collector
Rear Admiral Albert Kautz
Donor
Donated by
Mrs. Eugene Wambaugh
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