Bark cloth
date: label: Date
content: 19th or early 20th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: 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 divided by stripes of diamond pattern.
place: label: made in
content: Samoa
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Henry J. Bernheim
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1958-140-8
objectType: label: Type
content: non-woven textiles
label: Type
content: Bark cloth
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: mulberry tree bark (Broussonetia papyrifera); tapa Technique: beaten bark fiber, rubbed and hand painted Label: beaten and rubbed Broussonetia bark, hand-painted
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 177.8 x 128.3 cm (70 x 50 1/2 in.)