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Object Number 12-35-70/84187
Display Title Tapa cloth
Descriptions
Object Description Tapa cloth. Siapo tasina. Rectangular bark cloth (overlapped joins). Overall design, rubbed over a design tablet (squares and rectangles filled with floral or linear motifs) with minimal overpainting (lines, crosses and several random circles) in a brown-black resinous paint.
Inventory Description Tapa cloth, rectangular, painted black grid with linear, geometric designs
Classification
  • Tapa
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / United States / American Samoa / Tutuila Island
Materials Bark, Pigment
Dimensions Overall: 140 x 180 cm (55 1/8 x 70 7/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Provenance
Donor Donated by Dr. H.F. Lawrence
Donor Donated by Dr. Lombard C. Jones

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