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)
Collector
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
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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