Barkcloth Mat
Unidentified Tongan maker
mid-1980s
Paper mulberry bark, natural pigments
Sheet (Irreg.): 90 1/2 × 91 in. (229.9 × 231.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the Estate of Celia Ehrlich
2005.30.2
Geography
Place Made: Tongatapu Island, Tonga, Polynesia, Oceania
Period
20th century
Object Name
Textile
Research Area
Oceania
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed on side A, bottom right, diagonally from top to bottom, in dark brown over light brown pigment: 28; inscribed on side A, lower left, diagonally from top to bottom, in dark brown over light brown pigment: 30 [underlined]; inscribed on side B, bottom, left of center, from bottom to top, in dark brown over light brown pigment: 28; inscribed on side B, bottom right, from bottom to top, in dark brown over light brown pigment: 30
Course History
Studio Art 77.01, Senior Seminar II, Karol Kawiaka, Spring 2023
Studio Art 77.02, Senior Seminar II, Jen Caine, Spring 2023
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, mid-1980's; Estate of Celia Ehrlich; given to present collection, 2005.
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