Bark cloth or siapo
Artist:
Samoa
Date: 1892-93
Medium: Paper mulberry bark
Classification: Materials
Credit Line: Gift of Carrie Ormsbee
Object number: 1931.3.25
DescriptionFour panels containing 6 starfish motifs each (cross in center of starfish). Separated by strips of trochus shell (diamond shaped) pattern. One strip also contains 7 triangle. Reddish brown, black and yellow. Hand painted.