Tapa
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Feb 1962
name: label: Donor Name
content: Lucille M. Mann
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Fairly heavy piece of beige color tapa (made of two pieces glued down the center) cut in fringe at the sides and saw tooth on one end, painted crudely with dark brown design."
label: Notes
content: Rectangular piece of barkcloth that appears to be cut from a larger piece as one of the short sides is scissor cut. The other short side has a serrated edge. The long sides are both fringed. Presumably made from paper mulberry bark, with mainly dark designs (geometrical), using black pigment. On the back side, piecing of 4 individual bark cloth sections is readily visible. Tapas is know as a "masi (tapa) bolabola" from Cakaudrove province, Vanualevu, Fiji. It is old with fine fringes on both lengthwise edges, with the widths being serrated (one serrated edge has been cut). This would be worn as a skirt (as part of a ceremonial dress where the large tapa would have been pleated and worn as a skirt), either by man or a woman (ceremonially) in weddings, etc.. This would have been a longer tapa if it had not been cut.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fiji, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 241759
label: USNM Number
content: E399994-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 214 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 118 cm