Tapa Face Mask
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 Dec 2024
name: label: Donor Name
content: Regina A. Fitiao
notes: label: Notes
content: Handmade mask made by Samoan artist Reggie Meredith, during Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. Made from traditional Samoan tapa / siapo cloth, using traditional materials -- paper mulberry bark, lega yellow (tumeric root), O'a brown (Bischofia Javanics), black (kukui nut) lama, and red loa (Bixa Orellana). Cotton fabric lining. Painted with traditional samoan tapa motifs, and a layer of matte varnish.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Aug 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Pago Pago, 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: 2089761
label: USNM Number
content: E438073-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Face Mask