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Object Number 90-17-70/48435.2
Display Title Section of a man's loincloth
Descriptions
Inventory Description Tapa cloth, rectangular, red and black linear and dot design on buff
Classification
  • Tapa
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Hawaiian
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / United States
Dimensions Overall: 231.7 x 36.1 x 0.06 cm (91 1/4 x 14 3/16)
Quantity 1
Label on object 90-17-70/48435.2
Provenance
Donor American Antiquarian Society (1890)

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