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Object Number 973-24-70/5371
Display Title Tapa cloth
Descriptions
Inventory Description Tapa, over-all design pattern, red-brown color, unpainted borders
Classification
  • Tapa
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Tonga
Oceania / Fiji
Dimensions Overall: 231 x 398 cm (90 15/16 x 156 11/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Provenance
Collector Mr. Eliot Elisofon (1940-1972 - 1973)
Donor Mr. Eliot Elisofon (1940-1972 - June 1973)
Donor Donated by Estate of Eliot Elisofon

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