Samoa | Objects | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

We have 14 objects from this country

Large panel of tapa cloth. Thick white fabric made from beaten bark, painted in rust and brown in design of three rows of rectangles enclosing striated angular forms. Rows are divided by stripes of diamond pattern.

Bark Cloth, Large panel of tapa cloth, 19th or early 20th century
broussonetia bark.
Gift of Mrs. Henry J. Bernheim.
1958-140-8

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Textile (Samoa)

Textile (Samoa)
hand block-printed.
Gift of Camila Hewitt in memory of her grandfather, Edward Ringwood Hewitt.
1969-141-3

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Painted and printed fragments of tapa cloth in brown

Tapa Cloth Fragments (Samoa), early 20th century
paper, mulberry bark.
Gift of Elisabeth Aschehoug.
1941-57-6-b,c

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Square of tapa cloth with pattern in squares filled with diagonal stripes and diamond shapes in horizontal arrangment in shades of dark brown.

Tapa Cloth, Tapa cloth panel, ca. 1924
bark.
Gift of Miss Charlotte Gailor.
1966-79-1

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Tapa cloth printed in design of brown daisies on white circles on brown ground.

Tapa Cloth (Samoa), 1800–1850
paper mulberry bark.
Gift of Elisabeth Aschehoug.
1941-57-6-a

This object is part of the Textiles collection.

Tapa Cloth Fragment (Samoa)

Tapa Cloth Fragment (Samoa)
beaten mulberry bark.
Gift of Marian Pendleton Drew.
1937-72-1

This object is part of the Textiles collection.

Painted and printed fragment of tapa cloth in blue.

Tapa Cloth Fragment (Samoa), early 20th century
paper, mulberry bark.
Gift of Elisabeth Aschehoug.
1941-57-6-f

This object is part of the Textiles collection.

Painted and printed fragment of tapa cloth in yellow.

Tapa Cloth Fragment (Samoa), early 20th century
paper, mulberry bark.
Gift of Elisabeth Aschehoug.
1941-57-6-g

This object is part of the Textiles collection.

Large rectangular tapa, printed with blocks of geometric diamond and zigzag patterns in reddish-brown in a repeating fashion. Dark brown diamonds, squares and dots are hand-painted and do not repeat.

Tapa Cloth (Samoa), 20th century
beaten bark (tapa).
Museum purchase from Friends of Textiles Fund.
1976-33-3

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Panel with border on all four sides. Design of white diamonds with toothed edges, stylized bird in center of diamonds. Inner border of stylized "butterfly". Center section is plain except for simple row of alternating toothed diamonds with toothed triangles in black and brown.

Tapa Cloth (Samoa), 1895
bark.
1969-98-2

This object is part of the Textiles collection.

Painted and printed fragment of tapa cloth in blue.

Tapa Cloth Fragment (Samoa), early 20th century
paper, mulberry bark.
Gift of Elisabeth Aschehoug.
1941-57-6-d

This object is part of the Textiles collection.

Painted and printed fragment of tapa cloth in orange.

Tapa Cloth Fragment (Samoa), early 20th century
paper, mulberry bark.
Gift of Elisabeth Aschehoug.
1941-57-6-e

This object is part of the Textiles collection.

This object has not been digitized yet.

Bark Cloth (Samoa), 19th century
mulberry bark.
1937-83-1

This object is part of the Textiles collection.

This object has not been digitized yet.

Tapa Cloth (Samoa), 19th century
bark.
Gift of Mrs. Henry J. Bernheim.
1958-140-11

This object is part of the Textiles collection.