Shirt

Museum number:
11-39426
Permalink:
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Description:
Tapa, cut and sewn into a sleeveless blouse with narrow strips of fringe sewn on to arm holes and neck line, bottom cut into triangular fringe, black and dark reddish brown pigmetns; design with field squared off by diagonally striped bands, squares filled with star motifs made from triangles; elderly woman’s blouse
Collection place:
Leone Village, Tutuila, American Samoa
Culture or time period:
Samoan
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Blouses (main garments)
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Department:
Oceania
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Shirt, accession number 11-39426, described as Tapa, cut and sewn into a sleeveless blouse with narrow strips of fringe sewn on to arm holes and neck line, bottom cut into triangular fringe, black and dark reddish brown pigmetns; design with field squared off by diagonally striped bands, squares filled with star motifs made from triangles; elderly woman’s blouseHearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Shirt, accession number 11-39426, described as Tapa, cut and sewn into a sleeveless blouse with narrow strips of fringe sewn on to arm holes and neck line, bottom cut into triangular fringe, black and dark reddish brown pigmetns; design with field squared off by diagonally striped bands, squares filled with star motifs made from triangles; elderly woman’s blouse

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