Tapa Cloth Item Number: C1241 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Tapa cloth with brown and black stamped designs on natural ground. The design alternates squares of two patterns: a large brown circle and black triangles. One end has a thick border of geometric and abstract motifs separated by brown lines. The edge is also cut in a toothed pattern.
Item History
What
- Name
- Tapa Cloth
- Identification Number
- C1241
- Type of Item
- tapa cloth
- Material
- mulberry bark and paint
- Manufacturing Technique
- painted, pounded and stamped
- Overall
- height 155.0 cm, width 121.0 cm
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Fiji
When
- Ownership Date
- before September 1958
- Acquisition Date
- during September 1958
Other
- Item Classes
- textiles
- Condition
- good