dress;
poncho;
barkcloth
- Museum number
- Oc.1925
- Description
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Decorated tiputa (poncho) made of barkcloth. Fringed on the two long edges with zig-zag cut strips of barkcloth and painted with lines of triangles and leaf motifs.
- Dimensions
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Length: 98 centimetres (front only)
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Width: 140 centimetres (72cm excluding fringes)
- Curator's comments
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Two labels sewn on: one on paper with brown ink reads 'Dress of tapa. Savage Island' Other: small white paper label: '1925 Savage Is.'
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See John Pule and Nicholas Thomas, 'Hiapo: Past and present in Niuean barkcloth', Dunedin, University of Otago Press, 2005, p.84
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Original registration slip:
Savage Island.'Tapa' dress. It resembles a poncho in having a hole cut in the middle for the head to passs through. The sides have a deep fringe. The patterns consists of longitudinal lines of vandykes brown with with a little yellow. The ground colour white.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Dirty.
- Acquisition date
- 1866
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc.1925
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1866C1.1925 (old CDMS no.)