Barkcloth funerary face; sheet of barkcloth (tapa) with painted abstract face with lunate designs; blue, brown, yellow and black pigments; zigzags along three edges; length ca. 131 cm, width ca. 88 cm at base
Donor:
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Ready, Jr. Fund
Collection place:
New Britain, Bismarck Archipelago, Islands Region
Verbatim coll. place:
New Britain
Culture or time period:
Melanesian
Collector:
Bruce D. Lawes
Collection date:
before 1969
Materials:
Tapa (bark cloth)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
5.0 Use not specified (Ritual, Pageantry, and Recreation)
Accession date:
1969
Department:
Oceania
Loans:
S1971-1972 #131: Department of Art (UC Davis) (May 10, 1972–June 13, 1972)