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Object Number
05-2-70/64850
Display Title
Large piece of bark cloth or tapa
Descriptions
Object Description
Tapa cloth, old piece, rare. One side dyed yellow.
Inventory Description
Tapa, cloth, rectangular, multi-layered, natural white and brown, fragments sewn together with fiber, banded border at all edges, border sewn with fiber
Classification
- Tapa
Department
Ethnographic
Date
before 1905
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Chile
/
Rapa Nui
Dimensions
Overall: 170 × 123 cm (66 15/16 × 48 7/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Provenance
Collector
Alexander Agassiz
(1904-1904)
Expedition
Albatross Expedition
(1904-1905)
Donor
Alexander Agassiz
(04/1905)
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99-15-70/53901 | Tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Samoa
| |
| 14-29-70/85716 | Tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Fiji
| |
| 00-8-70/55415.1 | Tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Aitutaki
| |
| 00-8-70/55342 | Tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Eua Island
| |
| 973-24-70/5365 | Tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Samoa?
| |
| 999-18-70/5840 | Tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Hawaii
| |
| 34-137-70/298 | Piece of tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Niaufo'ou (Tin Can Island)
| |
| 56-5-70/3773 | Large piece of tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Samoa
| |
| 98-8-70/51692 | Tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Futuna Islands
| |
| 19-39-70/D1272 | Tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Samoa
| |
| 37-50-70/617 | Large piece of tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Samoa?
| |
| 48-49-70/2922 | Piece of tapa - white with brown designs |
Felted
|
Samoa
|