Cut section of tapa
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Tapa cloth, rectangular, painted and stamped linear designs. Medium to medium-heavy tapa cloth with hand-painted and hand-stamped motifs in horizontal bands across width. Grain direction lengthwise. Use of bast fiber stitching as decorative element in pattern, and on borders, is unusual. Shape of cloth and surface decoration suggests Melanesian (Solomon Islands?) or West Polynesian manufacture. Medium to medium-heavy tapa cloth with hand-painted and hand-stamped motifs in horizontal bands across width. Grain direction lengthwise. Use of bast fiber stitching as decorative element in pattern, and on borders, is unusual. Shape of cloth and surface decoration suggests Melanesian (Solomon Islands?) or West Polynesian manufacture.
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974-5-70/5434
Origin
Oceania, Philippines
Materials
Bark, Pigment, Unidentified colorant, Plied bast, Beaten inner bark fiber
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Overall: 146 x 84 cm (57 1/2 x 33 1/16 in.)
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Provenance: Unknown
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Not on display
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“Cut section of tapa,” Mapping Philippine Material Culture, accessed May 10, 2024, https://philippinestudies.uk/mapping/items/show/14476.
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