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TAPA CLOTH

Unknown, 1933-1966

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TAPA CLOTH

Unknown, 1933-1966

Physical Qualities Bark, polychrome, 394 x 385.5 cm.
Credit Line Gift of Alan Wurtzburger
Object Number 1955.251.166
SHIELDS/CRESTS, BIRDS, ARABIC NUMERALS
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1955; Alan Wurtzburger
Douglas F. Fraser & Paul S. Wingret, "The Wurtzburger Collection of Oceanic Art". Baltimore Museum of Art. 1956 pg. 37. cat no. 166. ( not installed in exhibition).
Veys, Fanny Wonu. Unwrapping Tongan Barkcloth: Encounters, Creativity and Female Agency. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017.

Brunt, Peter et al. Art in Oceania: A New History. Thames & Hudson. 2012

Küchler, Susanne & Graeme Were. 2010. “The Social World of Cloth in the Pacific Islands,” in Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, Vol. 7, 381-385.

Neich, Roger and Mick Predergrast. 1997. Pacific Tapa. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.

Herda, Phyllis S. "The changing texture of textiles in Tonga." The Journal of the Polynesian Society 108, no. 2 (1999): 149-167.

Teilhet-Fisk, Jehanne. 1991. “To Beat or Not to Beat, that is the Question: A Study on Acculturation and Change in an Art-Making Process and its Relation to Gender Structures,” Pacific Studies 14 (3): 41-68.

Weiner, Annette B. "Why cloth? Wealth, gender, and power in Oceania." Cloth and human experience (1989): 33-7 2

Culture

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