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Object Number 00-8-70/55393
Display Title Child's dress of fine white tapa
Descriptions
Inventory Description Dress, fine buff tapa, pink pigmented leaf design, lacy collar and hem, open fro
Classification
  • Dress
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / France / French Polynesia / Leeward Islands / Bora Bora
Additional Geographic Terms Society Islands
Dimensions Overall: 102.3 x 106 x 10 cm (40 1/4 x 41 3/4 x 3 15/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 00-8-70/55393
Provenance
Collector Dr. William McMichael Woodworth (1899-1900)
Collector Alexander Agassiz (1899-1900)
Collector U.S. Fish Commission Ship Albatross Expedition (1899-1900)
Donor Donated by Alexander Agassiz (1900)

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