Bark cloth or siapo
Artist:
Samoa
Date: 1892-93
Medium: Paper mulberry bark
Classification: Materials
Credit Line: Gift of Carrie Ormsbee
Object number: 1931.3.26
DescriptionOne strip cut into two pieces. Brown repeated linear pattern rubbed on a design tabblet consisting of triangles, hatching and squares containing slashes or x's. Hand painted in brown or black: thin border on 3 edges (with seven solid triangles). 10 short lines spaced out, and three evenly spaced circles (5 cm diameter)