Tapa cloth
date: label: Date
content: 19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Oblong panel of tapa cloth with a geometric design painted in two shades of brown. Two long borders have squares enclosing trefoils.
place: label: made in
content: Fiji
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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 Miss Helen S. Stone and Bromley S. Stone
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1937-35-40
objectType: label: Type
content: non-woven textiles
label: Type
content: Tapa cloth
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: paper mulberry bark (Broussonetia papyrifera); tapa Technique: beaten bark fiber, rubbed and hand painted
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 78.7 x 153 cm (31 x 60 1/4 in.)