Tapa cloth

Museum number:
11-1411
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Accession number:
Acc.528
Description:
Tapa with decoration of diagonal brown lines within squares.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Pago Pago, Tutuila Island, American Samoa
Verbatim coll. place:
Pago Pago; Tutuila Island; American Samoa
Culture or time period:
Samoan
Collector:
R. M. Walker
Collection date:
1900
Materials:
Tapa (bark cloth)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Accession date:
1917
Department:
Oceania
Loans:
S1963-1964 #51: Design Department (UC Berkeley) (November 27, 1963–January 11, 1964)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Tapa cloth, accession number 11-1411, described as Tapa with decoration of diagonal brown lines within squares.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Tapa cloth, accession number 11-1411, described as Tapa with decoration of diagonal brown lines within squares.

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