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Object Number
973-24-70/5366
Display Title
Tapa cloth fragment
Descriptions
Object Description
Small tapa cloth section is cut from a much larger cloth, ngatu. Lt. brown field, with band of dark-brown triangles and dots and two free-form figures in upper third of panel. Cloth decorated by rubbing over kupesi in red-brown paint and then with additional freehand overpainting in a dark brown. Letters written along one narrow band "Koe(f)ssovaea"
Inventory Description
Tapa, rectangular, buff with black and white figurative and geometric designs
Classification
- Tapa
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Tonga?
Dimensions
Overall: 87.5 x 75.5 cm (34 7/16 x 29 3/4 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
973-24-70/5[2]366
Provenance
Collector
Mr. Eliot Elisofon
(1940-1972 - June 1973)
Donor
Mr. Eliot Elisofon
(1940-1972 - June 1973)
Donor
Donated by
Estate of Eliot Elisofon
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