Tribal Art & Antiquities - 20th September 2017

Lot 634

A Tonga tapa cloth Polynesia decorated rows of geometric and foliage motifs

Estimate £100 - £200 | Hammer £190

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Description

A Tonga tapa cloth

Polynesia

decorated rows of geometric and foliage motifs, the triangular and cross linear designs to the three borders, reduced,

450 x 515cm.

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.