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Object Number 99-12-70/53557
Display Title Tapa cloth
Descriptions
Inventory Description Tapa cloth, rectangular, painted black panel, geometric design, fringed end
Classification
  • Tapa
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Fiji
Dimensions Overall: 133 x 61 cm (52 3/8 x 24 in.)
Quantity 1
Credit Line Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Provenance Boston Museum
Donor David P. Kimball
Donor L. Cushing Kimball
Donor Augusta K. Horton

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