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Object Number 71-8-70/2900.2
Display Title Tapa
Descriptions
Indigenous Term Tapa or Kapa
Inventory Description Tapa cloth, rectangular, reddish brown pigment on one side
Classification
  • Tapa
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Hawaiian
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / United States / Hawaii
Dimensions Overall: 211 x 315 x 1.5 cm (83 1/16 x 124 x 9/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2900
Provenance
Provenance Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (1871)
Collector Unknown

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