Tapa Cloth

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Tapa Cloth
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Datedate unknown
MediumBark with pigment
DimensionsOverall (Unfolded): 190.5 x 138.4 cm (75 x 54 1/2 in.)
Credit LineGift of Dr. Beth and Dr. Paul Losiewicz
Object number2000.1.2
Not on view
DescriptionBundle of bark cloth with black painted design and lettering along one edge.

Additional Details

Alternate Titles Bark cloth
Provenance 2000: Hamilton College (Emerson Gallery), by gift of Beth and Paul Losiewicz.
Tapa cloth fragment
Date: before 1927
Medium: Paper mulberry tree bark
Object number: S2024.5.2
Doll Head
Date: c. 1875
Medium: White stone with human hair
Object number: 1984.510
Photograph by John Bentham.
Date: c. 1870-75
Medium: Leather with dentalium shells and trade beads
Object number: 1984.456
Pipebag
Date: c. 1875
Medium: Leather with sinew, porcupine quill, yarn, and glass beads
Object number: 1984.533
Olla basket
Date: 1890-1910
Medium: Willow or sumac, cottonwood, and martynia
Object number: 1989.3.1
Club
Date: unknown
Medium: Leather, wood, stone, and glass beads
Object number: 1984.547
Club
Date: c. 1875
Medium: Wood, leather and stone
Object number: 1984.546
Date: c. 1875
Medium: Stone, wood and leather
Object number: 1984.545
Club
Date: c. 1875
Medium: Stone, wood, leather, and glass beads
Object number: 1984.544
Artwork is in the public domain. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton…
Date: 1900-30
Medium: Willow, cottonwood, and martynia
Object number: 1989.3.3
Artwork is in the public domain. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at H…
Date: 1875-1925
Medium: Willow or sumac, cottonwood, martynia
Object number: 1989.3.7
Date: c. 1875
Medium: Natural and dyed spruce root
Object number: 1996.15.35