Samoan
Tapa Cloth
Samoan, 1933
Scroll
Samoan
Tapa Cloth
Samoan, 1933
Physical Qualities
Bark, pigments, 59 7/16 x 53 9/16 in. (151 x 136 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Wittmann Family Trust, from the Collection of Robert M. Pierpont
Object Number
1999.504
3 strips of design with hatched ground created with pattern board. Painted spade-shaped (as in a deck of cards; previously called heart-shaped) design encloses painted rectangle divided in quarters on diagonal. Diagonal lines are part of ground pattern created with pattern board.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift 1999; The Wittman Family Trust, from the collection of Robert M. Pierpont.
