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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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