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Object Number
56-5-70/3773
Display Title
Large piece of tapa cloth
Descriptions
Object Description
Large piece of tapa cloth. Siapo tasina. Medium-weight cloth of beaten inner bark strips cut from a larger cloth. Composed of two sheets joined together by beating and some pasting. Perpendicular grain directions with four cut edges. Pigments applied to surface by rubbing over a design tablet with a matte red-brown paint with additional freehand over painting in a resinous dark brown paint. Additional object description notes under Conservation.
Inventory Description
Tapa cloth, square, painted dark brown linear deisgns
Classification
- Tapa
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Samoa
Dimensions
Overall: 208.28 x 195.58 cm (82 x 77 in.)
Quantity
1
Provenance
Collector
Prof. George H. Parker
Donor
Donated by
Estate of George W. Parker
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