Samoan and Samoan
Tapa Cloth
Samoan, 1919-1938
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Bark, pigments, 59 1/16 x 50 in. (150 x 127 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Arthur H. Ward
Object Number
1964.30.2
Rectangles, lines, triangles and bars in brown
The Baltimore Museum of Art 1964;Mrs. Arthur H. Ward (Elizabeth C. Ward) 1932.
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Neich, Roger and Mick Predergrast. Pacific Tapa. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. 1997.
Page, Maud. “Paperskin: An Introduction,” in Paperskin: Barkcloth Across the Pacific, 11-19. Auckland: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. 2009.
Neich, Roger and Mick Predergrast. Pacific Tapa. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. 1997.
