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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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| PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience | SHARE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11-2-70/83937 | Tapa cloth |
Tapa
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Taveuni
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Image Not Available
for Tapa cloth
| 12-33-30/84143 | Tapa cloth |
French Polynesia
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Image Not Available
for Tapa cloth
| 11-2-70/83938 | Tapa cloth |
French Polynesia
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| 98-8-70/51703 | Large tapa curtain |
Tapa
|
Naroi
Moala | |
| 14-29-70/85717 | Tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Fiji
| |
| 967-32-70/4634 | Tapa |
Tapa
|
Tonga
| |
| 96-25-70/49498.2 | Tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Samoa
| |
| 34-137-70/298 | Piece of tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Niaufo'ou (Tin Can Island)
| |
| 2000.16.3 | Tapa |
Tapa
|
Samoa?
Tonga | |
| 37-50-70/617 | Large piece of tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Samoa?
| |
| 2000.16.1 | Tapa |
Tapa
|
Tonga?
Samoa? | |
| 2002.18.1 | Tapa |
Tapa
|
Tonga
|