Tapa; painted with black, dark reddish brown, orange and yellow design with field border and divided into 8 squares filled with “X”, arc and trapezoid forms; for tourist trade including some old pieces of cloth
Collection place:
Samoa
Culture or time period:
Samoan
Materials:
Tapa (bark cloth)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Department:
Oceania
Dimensions:
length 82 centimeters and width 47.5 centimeters
Loans:
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)