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Tapa cloth
Object Number 00-8-70/55345
Display Title Tapa cloth
Descriptions
Inventory Description Tapa, brown and dark brown on natural linear motif with sparse dots
Classification
  • Tapa
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Tonga / <State> / Eua Island
Additional Geographic Terms Tongatapu Group
Materials Bark, Pigment
Dimensions Overall: 259.0805 × 248.9205 cm (102 × 98 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 55345
Provenance
Collector Dr. William McMichael Woodworth (1899-1900)
Collector Alexander Agassiz (1899-1900)
Collector U.S. Fish Commission Ship Albatross Expedition (1899-1900)
Donor Alexander Agassiz (1900)

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