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  • Bark Cloth, Large panel of tapa cloth, 19th or early 20th century

    Large panel of tapa cloth. Thick white fabric made from beaten bark, painted in rust and brown in design of three rows of rectangles enclosing striated angular forms. Rows are…

  • Drawing, Design for Backcloth, for Checkmate, 1937–47

    Geometric design for backcloth in black, yellow, blue and red. Two hole punches on left edge.

  • Tapa Cloth, Tapa cloth panel, ca. 1924

    Square of tapa cloth with pattern in squares filled with diagonal stripes and diamond shapes in horizontal arrangment in shades of dark brown.

  • Sidewall, Ramona, 1965–68

    On white ground, scattered simplified flower forms, in brightest pink, orange and yellow, top vertical, irregularly grouped, chartreuse stems.

  • Sidewall, Devon, 1967–69

    Over white ground, a green background, with vertical stripings of yellow-green foliage, flower splotch shapes in two shades of bright pink, and reserved white flowers with bright yellow centers.

  • Tapa Cloth (Samoa), 1895

    Panel with border on all four sides. Design of white diamonds with toothed edges, stylized bird in center of diamonds. Inner border of stylized “butterfly”. Center section is plain except…

  • Tapa Cloth (Samoa), 20th century

    Large rectangular tapa, printed with blocks of geometric diamond and zigzag patterns in reddish-brown in a repeating fashion. Dark brown diamonds, squares and dots are hand-painted and do not repeat.

  • Textile, Sumo, 1977

    Large scale “X “grid in bright colors (red, blue, yellow or green) on white.

  • Textile, Bo Boo, 1975

    Length of printed cotton with brightly colored cars and trucks on a white ground.

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