A Samoan dress made from tapa cloth. The dress is white and has decorations also made from tapa cloth, which look like little loops on the border at the bottom, at the end of the sleeves, and at the neckline of the dress. How did the object come to the Übersee-Museum? The collection was purchased by the museum from Otto Tetens in 1907. Tetens was director of the Samoa Observatory of the Royal Society of Sciences in Göttingen in the colony of German Samoa from 1902 to 1905. Nothing is yet known about the exact circumstances of Tetens' acquisition on site.