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Object Number
14-23-70/85657
Display Title
Tapa cloth
Descriptions
Object Description
Tapa cloth. Siapo mamanu. Moderately thin rectangular cloth made from pounded off-white inner bark fibers. The cloth is composed of two layers having perpendicular grain directions. Each layer is comprised of smaller fragments that are overlapped, pasted and beaten together. Although both layers are uniformally pounded, many branch hole are present, especially on the underside layer. The finishing edges are cut. One surface of the cloth has a hand-painted decorated surface having a simple black/brown boarder, black/brown crescent shaped moifs, rough brown linear lines and faint black circles. There are no visible beater patterns. Identifying numbers: Peabody Museum catalogue number in red on the verso appears on one edge.
Inventory Description
Tapa cloth, rectangular, natural with painted black crescents, brown linear desi
Classification
- Tapa
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Samoa
Dimensions
Overall: 236 x 71 cm (92 15/16 x 27 15/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
85657
Provenance
Donor
Mrs. G. P. Bradley
(1914)
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Tapa
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Samoa
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| 11-2-70/83931 | Tapa cloth |
Tapa
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Samoa
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| 18-2-70/D1102 | Tapa cloth |
Tapa
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Samoa?
| |
| 34-137-70/299 | Piece of tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Niaufo'ou (Tin Can Island)
| |
| 71-8-70/2899 | Small kapa cloth sample |
Tapa
|
Hawaii
| |
| 99-15-70/53901 | Tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Samoa
| |
| 99-15-70/53900 | Decorated tapa |
Tapa
|
Samoa
| |
| 34-137-70/298 | Piece of tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Niaufo'ou (Tin Can Island)
| |
| 91-6-70/50769.4 | Sash of tapa cloth, Fijian masi |
Tapa
|
Fiji
| |
| 973-24-70/5365 | Tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Samoa?
| |
| 77-37-70/11692 | Tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Pitcairn Island
| |
| 999-18-70/5804 | Bark cloth, Samoan siapo |
Tapa
|
Oceania
|