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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…

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Ceiling (USA), 1905–15

    Various floral medallions/fleurons with small yellow flowers, foliate vining and beading. Printed in greens, yellow and metallic gold on ribbed ground with white liquid mica overlay. Printed in selvedge: “C&W.”…

  • Ceiling (USA), 1905–15

    Large foliate scroll quatrefoils with floral medallion insets, foliate vining and beading that creates and X pattern, connected by large floral medallions. Printed in tans, tan-pink, green and white liquid…

  • Ceiling (USA), 1905–15

    Floral medallions with small rose center, lage and feather quatrefoil, lag and feather wreaths and four sets of two-rose bouquets. Surrounding the medallions are lag and feather wreaths which connect…

  • Ceiling (USA), 1905–15

    Large floral medallions and small fleurons connected by foliate vining, foliate scrolls and stylized floral swag. Printed in greens, pink and white liquid mica on a yellow-beige ground. Printed in…

  • Ceiling (USA), 1905–15

    All-over pattern of green flowers with brown foliage. Printed in greens, browns and cream on yellow ground. Printed in selvedge: “Ithaca Wall Paper Mills” and illegible pattern number.

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