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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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Textile (Cote d’Ivoire), 1964
Panel composed of eight strips sewn side-to-side. An overall checkerboard pattern of deep blue and white is accented with multicolored horizontal stripes and supplementary weft patterns.
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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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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 (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.
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Wrapper (Ivory Coast), mid-20th century
Panel formed of eleven narrow strips, each 3 3/4 inches wide, sewn together. Each strip is patterned by a 17 inch section of narrow blue and white stripes alternating with…
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Tapa Cloth Fragment (Samoa), early 20th century
Painted and printed fragment of tapa cloth in yellow.
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Tapa Cloth Fragment (Samoa), early 20th century
Painted and printed fragment of tapa cloth in blue.
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Tapa Cloth Fragment (Samoa), early 20th century
Painted and printed fragment of tapa cloth in orange.
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