Barkcloth Mat

Unidentified Tongan maker

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about 1987

Paper mulberry bark, natural pigments

Sheet (Irreg.): 83 7/8 × 73 7/16 in. (213 × 186.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the Estate of Celia Ehrlich

2005.30.1

Geography

Place Made: Tongatapu Island, Tonga, Polynesia, Oceania

Period

20th century

Object Name

Textile

Research Area

Oceania

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed on reverse, six inches from top, right of center, in dark brown pigment: UIM

Course History

Studio Art 77.01, Senior Seminar II, Karol Kawiaka, Spring 2023

Studio Art 77.02, Senior Seminar II, Jen Caine, Spring 2023

Anthropology 50.34, Native American and Indigenous Studies 30.28, Peoples of Oceania, Brinker Ferguson, Spring 2024

Exhibition History

Polynesian Tapa: Decorated Barkcloth from Tonga and Samoa, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Robert Welsch, Anthropology 38, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 23-November 28, 2004.

Provenance

Collected by Celia Ehrlich, Tongatapu Island, about 1987; Estate of Celia Ehrlich; given to present collection, 2005.

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