Siapo

Siapo (bark cloth) from Samoa, painted on the front: 'orooso Papauta' - in pen a girls’s name 'Mavin ?Fumipuy'. The cloth is hand painted (siapo mananu) in brown and black with star shapes representing star fish, circles and squares. The edges are cut into points. Formerly in the collections of the London Missionary Society.

Object Details

ID: ZBA5498
Collection: World Cultures
Type: Siapo
Display location: Not on display
Date made: 1896
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 1620 mm x 1530 mm