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  Tapa Cloth, 19th century

  Two thicknesses of bark cloth, white, printed in grey and yellow in lozenge and zigzag pattern.

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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…

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  Tapa Cloth, 19th century

  Rectangle of two thicknesses, printed in dark brown in design of striated diagonals within tall rectangles. Dark triangles of solid shiny pigment may be painted. Lozenge pattern border at one…

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  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.

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  Textile (Samoa)

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  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…

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  Tapa Cloth, late 19th–early 20th century

  Panel of tapa cloth painted to show a dark brown frame containing thirty compartments of geometric designs painted in dark brown and light blue. Design is roughly symmetrical, based upon…

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  Tapa Cloth, late 19th–early 20th century

  Panel of tapa cloth painted to show a dark brown frame containing twelve compartments of geometric designs. Compartments are divided by bands of chevron, diamonds and waving lines. Border of…

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  Tapa Cloth, late 19th–early 20th century

  Panel of tapa cloth painted to show allover design of light grey lines with larger geometric pattern of triangles and vertical lines in dark brown.

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  Tapa Cloth, late 19th–early 20th century

  Panel of tapa cloth painted blue and brown showing bands of chevron within a thin brown frame. Center of design composed of ten quatrefoils. Border of unpainted cloth.