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Object Number
14-29-70/85717
Display Title
Tapa cloth
Descriptions
Object Description
Tapa cloth. Appears much like a Fijian gatu vakaviti. The majority of the cloth is decorated in the Tongan method with a matte red-brown pigment/dye by rubbing over a design tablet (kupesi) and with black pigment by freehand painting. At the two ends, wide bands with design stencilled primarily in black paint in typical Fijian manufacture known as masi kesa. There are black thick outlined circles with some with a center cross or a center dot. Overall the design is geometric based with leaf or floral motifs and squares, rectangles and triangles and circles. Another similar cloth in the collection is 98-8-70/51703. For reference, see Kooijman page 381. Additional object description notes under Conservation.
Inventory Description
Tapa, rectangular, brown and orange floral and geometric design on buff
Classification
- Tapa
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Fiji
Dimensions
Overall: 596.9 x 660.4 cm (235 x 260 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
85717
Provenance
Collector
Dr. William McMichael Woodworth
Donor
Museum of Comparative Zoology
(1914)
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| PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience | SHARE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 98-8-70/51703 | Large tapa curtain |
Tapa
|
Naroi
Moala | |
| 14-29-70/85716 | Tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Fiji
| |
| 91-6-70/50769.4 | Sash of tapa cloth, Fijian masi |
Tapa
|
Fiji
| |
| 11-2-70/83936 | Tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Kambara
| |
| 967-32-70/4634 | Tapa |
Tapa
|
Tonga
| |
| 48-56-70/3129 | Tapa cloth with brown and black flower-like designs |
Tapa
|
Samoa
| |
| 14-29-70/85709 | Tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Fiji
| |
| 44-20-70/2266 | Round piece of tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Samoa
| |
| 10-28-70/76087 | Tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Samoa
Fiji | |
| 36-45-70/335 | Long piece of black and white tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Fiji
| |
| 12-35-70/84187 | Tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Tutuila Island
| |
| 88-51-70/51524 | Tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Samoa
Tonga |