Tribal Art & Antiquities - 20th September 2017
Lot 231
A Cook Islands tapa cloth fragment Polynesia with a chequer design of a central star motif in red...
Estimate £150 - £200 | Hammer £2600
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Description
A Cook Islands tapa cloth fragment
Polynesia
with a chequer design of a central star motif in red and black in a radiating square and angled lines, with a handwritten label on the reverse stating Native cloth from Rarotonga or Aitutaki given to Mrs Starling by Revd. John Williams....circa 1838,
84 x 55cm,
and a Tonga tapa cloth, with a chequer leaf design, 176 x 139cm. (2)
Provenance
The David Morris Collection.