Tapa; fringed painted in black and dark reddish brown; design with field divided into large rectangles each filled with 4-lobe plant motif; marriage cloth; heavy; to be hung in a fale (house) when a bride and groom are having their honeymoon in same room as parents; for the bride and groom to wipe their hands on after the marriage has been consummated
Collection place:
Savai'i, Samoa
Verbatim coll. place:
Samoa; Savaii
Culture or time period:
Samoan
Materials:
Tapa (bark cloth)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama