A Tonga large tapa cloth Polynesia decorated with geometric panels

A Tonga large tapa cloth

Polynesia

decorated with geometric panels, plants and three circles, with a central row of bordered text, the left border with numbers 14 - 24 and names SERA TASO FOLO LATN MELAIA, the right side SEAEANA TUBOU,

530 x 480cm.

Provenance

Dr Elizabeth Spillius, London.

Collected whilst in Tonga between 1958 - 60, where she was studying Polynesian monarchy and kinship in collaboration with Queen Salote.