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smo siapo which is divided in 7 circles. Each circle is decorated with leaves which are coloured in yellow, blue and brown.
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.
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Assignment to a curated holding: Ethnographic collections
Secondary literature
Te Rangi Hiroa: smo Material Culture, 1930.
Krämer, Augustin: Die Samoa-Inseln: Entwurf einer Monographie mit besonderer Berücksichtigung Deutsch-Samoas, Bd. 2, 1903.
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tapa cloth
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siapo
Language: Samoan
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Tapa
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Bark pulp
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tapa cloth
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Bark pulp
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Tapa
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Bark pulp
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