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Large roll of tapa cloth (or siapo), likely from Samoa The saipo is heavily decorated both with embossed shapes and painted elements. Tapa (or saipo in Samoa) is made of the inner bark of certain trees (usually the paper mulberry) and widely used throughout the Pacific Islands for clothing and for other secular, sacred and ceremonial purposes.
tapa (bark cloth)
tapa (bark cloth)
Original To Stephen Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
Unknown
Pacific Island Group
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.3663
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Missouri (United States)
Samoa (Texas county, Missouri)
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