Tribal Art & Antiquities - 20th September 2017
Lot 636
A Tonga large tapa cloth Polynesia decorated with geometric panels
Estimate £200 - £300 | Hammer £300
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Description
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.