Printing Block Item Number: C6 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Rectangular tapa board, or print block, for creating siapo (tapa cloth). Rectangular, dark brown wooden board covered in geometric patterns. The designs include squares of parallel lines and crescents in a grid formation. The patterns are made from twigs sewn onto bark, then covered with black resin?
History Of Use
Printing block for creating siapo (tapa cloth) patterns; used to transfer tapa paint onto the pounded bark cloth, in a repeating grid pattern.
Item History
- Made in Savai'i, Samoa before 1927
- Collected between 1895 and 1927
- Owned by Frank Burnett before 1927
- Received from Frank Burnett (Donor) on July 25, 1927
What
Who
- Culture
- Samoan
- Previous Owner
- Frank Burnett
- Received from
- Frank Burnett (Donor)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Savai'i, Samoa
When
- Creation Date
- before 1927
- Collection Date
- between 1895 and 1927
- Ownership Date
- before 1927
- Acquisition Date
- on July 25, 1927
Other
- Condition
- fair
- Accession Number
- 2191/0439