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Object Number 41-60-70/2005
Display Title Bottle of red pigment for painting tapa cloth
Descriptions
Inventory Description Pigment powder sample, reddish, in bottle with cotton stopper
Classification
  • Pigment
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Fiji
Additional Geographic Terms Tunuloa; Vanua Levir
Materials Pigment
Dimensions Overall: 16 x 2.6 x 2.6 cm (6 5/16 x 1 x 1 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 41-60-70/2005

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Small bottle of red pigment mixed with liquid - for painting tapa cloth
41-60-70/2006 Small bottle of red pigment mixed with liquid - for painting tapa cloth
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Tapa
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