Tapa cloth

Maker
Unknown Maker
Description
Large piece of tapa cloth with geometric patterns. It has had borders cut from it, resulting in four off-cuts.
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Maker
Media/Materials
Tapa. Early catalogue sheet suggests "bark of paper mulberry".
Measurements
1 - Tapa - 1800 x 2730mm - HxW
2 - Off-cut - 685 x 1890mm - HxW
3 - Off-cut - 355 x 1980mm - HxW
4 - Off-cut - 127 x 1780mm - HxW
5 - Off-cut - 265 x 1800mm - HxW
Production place
Tonga
Collection
Ethnology
Department collection type
Ethnology
Credit line
Collection of Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato
Accession number
1981/9/13.1-5

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