Tapa Cloth Item Number: C1236 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Tapa cloth painted with a design in brown with black lines dividing the design into boxes filled with exes and lines as well as some outlined Arabic numbers and letters.
Narrative
Collected by donor while during anthropological fieldwork in New Guinea in 1938.
Item History
- Made in Papua New Guinea ? before 1938
- Collected in Papua New Guinea during 1938
- Owned by Elizabeth Cobbold before February 1957
- Received from Elizabeth Cobbold (Donor) during February 1957
What
- Name
- Tapa Cloth
- Identification Number
- C1236
- Type of Item
- tapa cloth
- Material
- paper mulberry bark
- Manufacturing Technique
- painted and pounded
- Overall
- height 188.0 cm, width 137.2 cm
Who
- Culture
- New Guinea ?
- Previous Owner
- Elizabeth Cobbold
- Received from
- Elizabeth Cobbold (Donor)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Papua New Guinea ?
- Collected in
- Papua New Guinea
When
- Creation Date
- before 1938
- Collection Date
- during 1938
- Ownership Date
- before February 1957
- Acquisition Date
- during February 1957
Other
- Item Classes
- textiles
- Condition
- good
- Accession Number
- 2176/0015