Tapa cloth

Museum number:

11-39365

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Object count:

1

Description:

Tapa, fringed, black and pink pigments, design with field squared, emphasized in one direction with black zigzags, squares filled with leaf forms and heart in diamond motifs; probably wrapper (’afu) or bedsheet (’afu loto)

Collection place:

Tutuila, American Samoa

Verbatim coll. place:

Tutuila Island, American Samoa

Culture or time period:

Samoan

Materials:

Tapa (bark cloth)

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Textile samples

Function:

2.1 Daily Garb

Department:

Oceania