Tapa artwork
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 Jan 2017
name: label: Donor Name
content: Regina Meredith
notes: label: Notes
content: Elaborately painted barkcloth / tapa / siapo, stretched over circular piece of wood. Tapa is white, with finely detailed patterns outlined in black, and filled in in places with brown. Signed by the artist on back: "Regina Meredith Fitiao / 2014 / July 02 / Leone Village / Pago Pago, Am. Samoa" Made for the Smithsonian while the artist was in residence in the Anthropology Department in July 2014.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Aug 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Pago Pago / Leone Village, Tutuila Island, American Samoa, United States, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Samoan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2071957
label: USNM Number
content: E434511-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Artwork
physicalDescription: label: Diameter
content: 60.8 cm
label: Width
content: 1.5 cm