Bark cloth, or tapa
Artist:
SANDWICH ISLANDER
Date: 1892-93, if Ormsbee
Medium: Paper mulberry bark
Classification: Materials
Credit Line: Ormsbee Collection
Object number: 1994.17.52
DescriptionBlack tapa fragment. Solid black strips alternating with bands of small diamonds (rubbed?) that looks like netting. Brown band down one edge containing clear V's. Second brown band on opposite edge contains (two?) concentric triangles (handpainted?)
Note: Written on tapa "Sandwich Islands"
Note: Written on tapa "Sandwich Islands"
Not on view
In Collection(s)
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