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Tapa cloth cut fragment
Tapa cloth cut fragment
Object Number 973-24-70/5368
Display Title Tapa cloth cut fragment
Descriptions
Object Description Small off-white tapa cloth cut section from a larger cloth (ngatu or siapo), has minimal decoration in freehand drawn lines in red-brown paint that form two spaced narrow bands, with several groups of 3 solid circle motifs, closely resembles 70/7364.
Inventory Description Tapa cloth, buff with pigmented brown linear and dot designs
Classification
  • Tapa
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Samoa
Oceania / Tonga
Materials Tapa, Pigment, Unidentified colorant, Beaten inner bark fiber
Dimensions Overall: 61.5 x 87.5 x 0.1 cm (24 3/16 x 34 7/16 x 1/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 973-24-70/5368
Provenance
Donor Donated by Estate of Eliot Elisofon

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