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Object Number 99-12-70/53633
Display Title Tapa belt
Descriptions
Inventory Description Belt, bark, brown stitched designs, fringed end, torn, losses of fiber, shedding
Classification
  • Belt
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Federated States of Micronesia
Additional Geographic Terms Caroline Islands
Dimensions Overall: 4 x 136 x 0.2 cm (1 9/16 x 53 9/16 x 1/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 53633
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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