Tapa Fragment
Unidentified Fijian maker
about 1840
Bark, freehand painted red and black
Overall: 19 11/16 × 39 3/8 in. (50 × 100 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Acquired in an exchange from the Smithsonian Institution
13.2.597
Geography
Place Made: Fiji, Melanesia, Oceania
Period
19th century
Object Name
Textile: Tapa
Research Area
Oceania
Not on view
Provenance
Collected by U.S. Exploring Expedition in Fiji, 1838-1842; transferred by order of the United States Congress to the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (no. 5436), 1857; acquired by the Dartmouth College Museum, Hanover, New Hampshire, in an exchange, 1880's; catalogued, 1913.
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