Mat / rug roll

Museum number:

11-39403

Permalink:

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Description:

Tapa; fringed; pale and dark brown pigments; design with fields divided into rectangles by dark lines and bands, rectangles filled with a chevron and parallel lines in the triangles; example of a type exchanged or given in a malanga (tour), i.e. a visiting of villages by a group and an exchange of gifts and shells, a meeting place of chiefs, talking chiefs, etc.; probably a wrapper (’afu) or a bedsheet (’afu loto)

Collection place:

Tutuila, American Samoa

Verbatim coll. place:

Tutuila Island, American Samoa

Culture or time period:

Samoan

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Mats (floor coverings)

Function:

4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings

Department:

Oceania