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Object Number 11-2-70/83929
Display Title Tapa cloth
Descriptions
Object Description Tapa cloth, decorated on face side. See conservation report.
Inventory Description Tapa, thin cloth, rectangular, sparse decorations across cloth, brown and yellow pigment on natural background, decorations of circles, crescents, and dots, linear border with triangular designs
Classification
  • Tapa
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Samoa
Dimensions Overall: 523.241 × 75 × 9 cm (206 × 29 1/2 × 3 9/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Provenance
Collector Dr. William McMichael Woodworth (1896-1900 - 1911)
Donor Dr. William McMichael Woodworth (1896-1900 - 1911)

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