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Object Number 11-2-70/83936
Display Title Tapa cloth
Descriptions
Object Description Tapa cloth. A Fijian cloth known as a gatu vakatoga (produced in the Tongan method), rubbed over a variety of kupeti and with freehand overpainting; cloth as cut is four lalanga long featuring one-half of its width with only one natural side edge. Additional object description under conservation.
Inventory Description Tapa, brown with tan band one side, linear designs and black circles
Classification
  • Tapa
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Fiji / <State> / Kambara
Dimensions Overall: 177.8 x 182.88 cm (70 x 72 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 83936
Provenance
Donor Donated by Dr. William McMichael Woodworth

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