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Tongan

Tapa Cloth

Tongan, 1919-1938

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Tongan

Tapa Cloth

Tongan, 1919-1938

Physical Qualities Bark, polychrome, 55 1/8 x 76 5/8 in. (140 x 194.6 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Alan Wurtzburger
Object Number 1955.251.169
Brown design of triangles and leaves
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. 169.

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