Tapa cloth

Museum number:

11-39573

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Accession number:

Acc.2636

Description:

Tapa cloth, natural color, rectangular, rust dye, stamped geometric pattern on main body, ends plain with sparse hand-painted line motifs. Possibly unfinished.

Donor:

Mrs. Dale Parks and Mrs. Stanley Curry

Collection place:

Samoa

Verbatim coll. place:

Samoa

Culture or time period:

Samoan

Materials:

Tapa (bark cloth)

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Textile samples

Function:

4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings

Accession date:

May 1970

Department:

Oceania