Tapa cloth

Museum number:

11-2143

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Accession number:

Acc.639

Description:

Tapa; geometric and leaf design in brown and white.

Donor:

Mary S. Johnson

Collection place:

Samoa

Verbatim coll. place:

Samoa

Culture or time period:

Samoan

Materials:

Tapa (bark cloth)

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Textile samples

Function:

2.1 Daily Garb

Accession date:

1929

Department:

Oceania

Loans:

S1957-1958 #7: Kroeber Anthropological Society (March 5, 1958–March 6, 1958), S1963-1964 #41: Department of Home Economics (UC Davis) (November 14, 1963–January 7, 1964), S1980-1981 #42: University of California, Davis/Victoria Rivers (January 9, 1981–March 13, 1981), S1981-1982 #11: Department of Environmental Design (UC Davis)/Victoria Rivers (September 24, 1981–December 1, 1981), S1982-1983 #14: University of California, Davis/Victoria Rivers (October 1, 1982–December 6, 1982), S1983-1984 #36: Department of Environmental Design (UC Davis)/Victoria Rivers (January 13, 1983–March 5, 1984), S1984-1985 #13: Department of Environmental Design (UC Davis)/Victoria Rivers (October 1, 1984–December 12, 1984), S1985-1986 #11: Department of Environmental Design (UC Davis)/Victoria Rivers (October 3, 1985–February 4, 1986), S1986-1987 #7: Department of Environmental Design (UC Davis) (September 29, 1986–December 1, 1986), S1987-1988 #19: Department of Environmental Design (UC Davis)/Victoria Rivers (September 1987–December 8, 1987), and S1988-1989 #15: Department of Environmental Design (UC Davis)/Victoria Rivers (1988–February 21, 1989)

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