Tapa cloth
- Museum number:
- 11-43011
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21110043011
- Accession number:
- Acc.3816
- Description:
- Bark cloth; geometric black and red designs; 139 cm by 86 cm.
- Donor:
- Donald A. Spaugy
- Collection place:
- Collingwood Bay, Papua New Guinea
- Verbatim coll. place:
- New Guinea; Southeast Coast; Collingwood Bay area
- Culture or time period:
- Maisin people
- Collection date:
- 1944
- 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
- Department:
- Oceania