All works › The Cleveland Museum of Art

Tapa Cloth

Unknown artist, Before 1971

2.39 m × 79 cm

It would not fit through your front door. Stood on end it is 1.4 people tall.

Against things you know the size of

Height: 79 cm
Width: 2.39 m
Medium: mulberry bark (Broussonetia papyrifera)
Kind: Textile
Made in: Oceania, Melanesia, Fiji Islands
Where the measurement comes from: Measured by the museum. The dimension is the one recorded by the institution that holds the work.
As the museum records it: Overall: 239 x 79 cm (94 1/8 x 31 1/8 in.)
Why this differs from the record: Recorded as 79 cm × 2.39 m. Hung the other way up, because the photograph of it is.
Credit: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Munro

Five questions, answered from its own record. What is AGAI?

How big is it?: 2.39 m × 79 cm. It would not fit through your front door. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made Before 1971. It is in the public domain, and The Cleveland Museum of Art publishes it for open use.
Whose is it?: Everyone’s to see. It is held by The Cleveland Museum of Art: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Munro.
How was it made?: Mulberry bark (Broussonetia papyrifera), made in Oceania, Melanesia, Fiji Islands, Oceania, Melanesia, Fiji Islands.
Who speaks for it?: Its record at The Cleveland Museum of Art. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.

One email. The smallest thing in the collection, the largest, and two that hang well together.

Scored on colour, shape, era and scale, the same way the gallery hangs them.