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Object Number
99-15-70/53876
Display Title
Tapa swab for spreading dye on printing stripe #53872-3
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Tapa cloth, folded into several layers, bunched and tied at one end with knotted tapa band, liquid stain at other end, undecorated
Classification
- Textileworking
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Samoa
Materials
Tapa cloth
Dimensions
Overall: 16.8 × 8.7 × 2 cm (6 5/8 × 3 7/16 × 13/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
53876
Provenance
Collector
Dr. William McMichael Woodworth
(1898-1899)
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