IDNO

P.99130.MUS

Description

Documentary photograph of a tapa (barkcloth) from Fiji, now in the care of MAA, reference Z 30626: "Barkcloth - Barkcloth. White, black and red-brown. Poor shape.
'Stencilled barkcloth. The geometric motifs are arranged in twelve rectangles. The colours are black and a little bit of dark red." [Description from record Z 30626, JD 30/09/2021]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; United Kingdom; England; Cambridge; Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Museum Photographer

Collector / Expedition

?von Hügel, Anatole (Baron) [Object source]

Date

1944

Collection Name

Museum Objects and Galleries

Source

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.99122 to P.99152 were formerly kept in paper archive envelope OA1/2/6; Box 79. The prints have now been transferred to the photo archive.

Related Image: This print or negative appears to be a unique image within the MAA Photograph Collections. [JD 7/1/2012]

This print has been catalogued with the support of the Getty Grant Fund. [A. Nadin, 19/8/2003]