Tapa Cloth

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Tapa Cloth

Place made:Samoa

General region:Oceania

Culture: Samoan

Date: First half of 20th century

Medium: Tree bark and pigment

Dimensions:

128 × 74 1/2 in. (325.1 × 189.2 cm)

Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Jacqueline and Ken Fischer in memory of her parents Mary Ann and Dempsey Rowe

Object number: 2019.3

Provenance: By inheritance to Mrs. Jaqueline Fischer, Gonzales, Texas, 2004; by gift to Mrs. Mary Anne Rowe, 1969, from a co-worker at a Naval base in California; from co-worker's family in Samoa.

Not on view

In Collection(s)

Oceanic Art

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Tapa Cloth

Tapa Cloth