Samoan
Tapa Cloth
Samoan, 1933-1966
Scroll
Samoan
Tapa Cloth
Samoan, 1933-1966
Physical Qualities
Bark, 146 7/8 x 71 1/16 in. (373 x 180.5 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Alan Wurtzburger
Object Number
1955.251.168
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1955; Alan Wurtzburger
Douglas F. Fraser & Paul S. Wingret, "The Wurtzburger Collection of Oceanic Art" , BMA 1956 pg. 37. cat no. 168.
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.
Herda, Phyllis S. "The changing texture of textiles in Tonga." The Journal of the Polynesian Society 108, no. 2 (1999): 149-167.
Neich, Roger and Mick Predergrast. 1997. Pacific Tapa. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.
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
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.
Herda, Phyllis S. "The changing texture of textiles in Tonga." The Journal of the Polynesian Society 108, no. 2 (1999): 149-167.
Neich, Roger and Mick Predergrast. 1997. Pacific Tapa. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.
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
