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Maker(s):Unknown
Culture:Oceanic; Polynesian
Title:Tapa cloth; Kapa cloth; Bark cloth
Type:Textile
Materials:Bark cloth
Place Made:Oceania; Polynesia; Territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands
Measurements:overall: 74 in x 66 1/2 in; 188 cm x 168.9 cm
Accession Number:  MH SK E.21.A.12.1
Credit Line:Joseph Allen Skinner Museum, Mount Holyoke College
Museum Collection:  The Joseph Allen Skinner Museum at Mount Holyoke College
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SKINNER CATALOGUE:
A piece of tapa cloth from Tahiti, collected 1938. The ground color is a very light buff, the design is in a black shiny dye and consists of an eight section center, surrounded by a line of diamond shaped figures; a four row border, ending in scallops; with the intervening space decorated with rudely conventionalized plants and flowers. Marked in one corner: "A/- 6" and in the other: "No 1449". Cat. 6/15/1938.

Tags:
indigenous people

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