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Photo by Kate Macuen
Tapa Cloth
Photo by Kate Macuen
Photo by Kate Macuen
DepartmentOceania

Tapa Cloth

NameTapa Cloth
CultureTonga
Date20th century
Place madeTonga / Kingdom of Tonga, Oceania
Mediumbark cloth
Dimensionsoverall: 1 M 32 CM X 1 M 61 CM
Credit LineInternational Folk Art Foundation Collection (IFAF)
Object numberFA.1971.42.1
Collections
DescriptionGeometrical design based on squares and stars.
Blouse
ca 1960
Painted cloth
Anacecilia Rojas Soria
2009
Attush robe
Unrecorded Ainu artist
ca. 1850
Cradle Board.
Artist not recorded
c. 1900
Artic Jam
Paul Graubard
2003
Mask
ca. 1970
Attush robe
Unrecorded Ainu artist
late 18th to early 19th century
Nambouki
Artist not recorded
Early 20th century
Bag, carrying
Artist not recorded
ca 1982