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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
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Samoa
/
<State>
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<County>
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<City>
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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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| |
| 2000.16.1 | Tapa |
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| |
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