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| Maker(s): | Unknown | | Culture: | Oceanic; Polynesian
| | Title: | Tapa cloth; Kapa cloth; Bark cloth
| | Type: | Textile
| | Materials: | Bark cloth
| | Place Made: | Oceania; Polynesia; Territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands
| | Measurements: | overall: 74 in x 66 1/2 in; 188 cm x 168.9 cm
| | Accession Number: | MH SK E.21.A.12.1
| | Credit Line: | Joseph Allen Skinner Museum, Mount Holyoke College
| | Museum Collection: | The Joseph Allen Skinner Museum at Mount Holyoke College
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SKINNER CATALOGUE:
A piece of tapa cloth from Tahiti, collected 1938. The ground color is a very light buff, the design is in a black shiny dye and consists of an eight section center, surrounded by a line of diamond shaped figures; a four row border, ending in scallops; with the intervening space decorated with rudely conventionalized plants and flowers. Marked in one corner: "A/- 6" and in the other: "No 1449". Cat. 6/15/1938.
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