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Object Number
48-56-70/3125
Display Title
Tapa cloth with brown and black geometric designs
Descriptions
Object Description
Tapa cloth with brown and black geometric designs. Siapo mamanu.
Medium-weight cloth, likely made from incompletely processed inner bark fiber. Overlapping joins (4 cm or more), starch adhesive. Four cut edges. Freehand painting in resinous reddish brown colorant with overpainting in a resinous dark brown to black colorant; geometric designs overall. Starch application on face side likely contributing to stiffened feel. Colorant appears only on face side; rear side is a slightly lighter tan than the face side's unpigmented areas due to the coating.
There is gum-adhesive label (serrated edges similar to a postage stamp), off-white with black printer's ink "75". The Peabody number is written in black ink 48-56-70/3125.
Inventory Description
Tapa, checkerboard design, brown and black geometric and zigzag elements
Classification
- Tapa
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Samoa
Dimensions
Overall: 167 x 104 cm (65 3/4 x 40 15/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
48-56-70/3125; 75
Provenance
Collector
Dr. Harry Clark
(1917 - 1948)
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Samoa
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| |
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| |
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Tapa
|
Hawaii
| |
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Tapa
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Samoa
| |
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Tapa
|
Samoa
| |
| 18-20-70/D1149 | Hand-painted loincloth |
Tapa
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| |
| 00-8-70/55346 | Tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
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| |
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Tapa
|
Samoa
| |
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Tapa
|
Hawaii
| |
| 94-10-70/48375 | Kapa |
Tapa
|
Hawaii County
| |
| 2000.16.1 | Tapa |
Tapa
|
Tonga?
Samoa? |