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Object Number 99-15-70/53877
Display Title Bag of yellow dye for tapa printing
Descriptions
Inventory Description Dry yellow pigment, bundled in tapa cloth, undecorated tapa, cloth tied at top with band of tapa
Classification
  • Dye
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Samoa
Dimensions Overall: 12.1 × 10.1 × 8.8 cm (4 3/4 × 4 × 3 7/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 53877
Provenance
Collector Dr. William McMichael Woodworth

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