2001.100.4087.1
Place MadePolynesia
DateCirca 1820-1825
Mediumfiber
Donor credit lineKendall Whaling Museum Collection Transfer
Object number2001.100.4087.1
Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum
DescriptionTwo fragment pieces of tapa cloth probably from Samoa or Fiji (.1-.2). .1: triangular shaped with brown pigment outline the triangle and black pigment used in decorative slash marks.Exhibition History"Visualizing Melville" (NBWM, January 8 - August 20, 2011)ProvenanceSouvenir of David A. Blair, ship FALCON of Nantucket (2 voyages, 1820-25, both under Capt. Benj. C. Chase) shipwrecked 1825, returned home in "[?]CHILI" of Nantucket, F. H. Barnard, 1826.
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