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Object Number 43-32-70/2248
Display Title Decorated tapa
Descriptions
Object Description Siapo mamanu. Cloth appears to be of two medium-weight layers. Free-hand painted design is primarily in a slightly resinous brown black paint - linear with triangles; isolated regions may have been painted with a yellow dye/paint (turmeric?). Cloth is in very poor condition; no longer intact as a measurable cloth; very heavily soiled (oily sooty particulates).
Inventory Description Tapa fragments, buff with black linear and geometric designs, powdering
Classification
  • Tapa
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Samoa / <State> / <County> / <City> / Pago Pago
Dimensions Overall: 63.5 x 38 x 4 cm (25 x 14 15/16 x 1 9/16 in.)
Quantity 100+
Label on object 43-32-70/2248
Provenance
Provenance Alice H. Spaulding (1943)
Collector Capt. Henry Clay Houdlette
Donor Donated by Alice H. Spaulding

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