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Bark cloth, or tapa
Artist:
Samoa
Date: late 19th C.
Medium: Paper mulberry bark
Classification: Materials
Credit Line: Gift of Hon. H. C. Ide
Object number: 1994.17.60
DescriptionThirty alternatiing rectangles of irregular "starfish" or pinwheels and broken Maltese crosses. Geomettic dividers and borders including "trochus" or diamond motif. Handpainted. brown, black, yellow.
Remarks: written on cloth: "bark cloth, Samoa, The gift of Hon. H. C. Ide"
Remarks: written on cloth: "bark cloth, Samoa, The gift of Hon. H. C. Ide"
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