Tapa cloth

Museum number:
3-437
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21030000437
Accession number:
Acc.58
Description:
Palm-fiber “cloth” (”Tapa”).
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Nicaragua
Verbatim coll. place:
Mosquito Indians
Culture or time period:
Miskito
Collector:
Frederic Ward Putnam
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Accession date:
December 8, 1902
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Tapa cloth, accession number 3-437, described as Palm-fiber “cloth” (”Tapa”).
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Tapa cloth, accession number 3-437, described as Palm-fiber “cloth” (”Tapa”).

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