Tapa cloth

Museum number:
11-1409
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Accession number:
Acc.528
Description:
Large piece of tapa with pale brown decorations of diagonal lines.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Pago Pago, Tutuila Island, American Samoa
Verbatim coll. place:
Pago Pago; Tutuila Island; American Samoa
Culture or time period:
Samoan
Collector:
R. M. Walker
Collection date:
1900
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Accession date:
1917
Department:
Oceania
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Tapa cloth, accession number 11-1409, described as Large piece of tapa with pale brown decorations of diagonal lines.

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