Tapa, decorated with Bands of Churches
Unidentified Tongan maker
1920-1930
Bark
Overall: 78 × 168 in. (198.1 × 426.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Doris Kerr Humphries, in honor of Sandra D. Kerr-Porcari, Class of 1985
2013.90
Geography
Place Made: Western Samoa, Polynesia, Oceania
Period
20th century
Object Name
Textile: Tapa
Research Area
Oceania
Not on view
Inscriptions
Some panels (langanga) are numbered (11. 10, 18, 20; text, below images: MAM / NAA; TAHAMANO; MAMA; MAMA / LOA
Provenance
Collected by a "Captain"; Randolph, Vermont Auction; sold to Doris Kerr Humphries (mother of Sandra D. Kerr-Porcari, Class of 1985), White River Junction, Vermont, 1970's; given to present collection, 2013.
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