Tapa cloth

Title

Tapa cloth

Description

Cloth made of braided bast fiber, according to original catalogue card a women's cloth, decorated with an embossed pattern of grooves, to be compared with "Tauern, Patasiwa & Patalima, p. 114" and attributed to "Waimale"

Creator

Unknown

Rights

© GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Foto: Kim Janke

Provenance

Until an exchange in 1921 part of the collection of the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum Köln

Place of Creation

Seram (West)

Physical Dimensions

100 x 15 cm

Materials

Bast fiber

Collecting Institution

GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig

Inventory Number

SAs 10347

File item: 1921/67
Original Number: 825

Collection

Citation

Unknown, “Tapa cloth,” The Mailopu Archive - Markus Mailopu and the II. Freiburg Moluccan Expedition, accessed May 6, 2025, https://www.mailopu.ethnologie.uni-muenchen.de/omeka/items/show/47.

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