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Object Number 99-16-70/53960
Display Title Tapa cloth
Descriptions
Object Description Tapa cloth. Cloth appears to be a Samoan (siapo mamanu) rather than of Fijian manufacture. Additional object description under conservation.
Inventory Description Tapa cloth, rectangular, painted geometric and linear design, fringed sides
Classification
  • Tapa
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Samoa
Dimensions Overall: 174.5 cm (68 11/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Provenance
Donor Donated by Miss Margaret Norton

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