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Object Number
14-29-70/85710
Display Title
Tapa cloth
Descriptions
Object Description
Tapa cloth. Rectangular shaped off-white cloth of two very finely beaten inner bark fiber layers with matte red-brown and black paint, stencilled. Four widths of cloth are joined by overlapping joins of approx. two inches each, adhered with paste (unidentified). Two to three lengths long, overlapping joins. Top and bottom have zigzag cut edges with side edges of very finely cut fringes. Catalogue number 85710 is written in red-orange paint on one side edge at corner.
Inventory Description
Tapa cloth, black geometric painted design, two zig-zag edges, two fringed edges
Classification
- Tapa
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Fiji
Dimensions
Overall: 317.5 x 184.15 cm (125 x 72 1/2 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
85710
Provenance
Collector
Dr. William McMichael Woodworth
Donor
Museum of Comparative Zoology
(1914)
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| |
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| |
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| |
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| |
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| |
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|
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| |
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|
Fiji
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