The 'Amerika Samoa' exhibition at the Field Museum, curated by Samoan artists, showcases traditional Samoan cultural practices including Siapo (painted barkcloth) and tattooing, which carry spiritual significance in Samoan culture, while highlighting the Samoan community in Chicago and the islands' status as a US territory since 1900.
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'Amerika Samoa' exhibit at Field Museum highlights Samoan communityAdded:
Hi, maybe C7's Karen Jordan. This is a Siapo and it's painted barkcloth and it's an example of an artistic tradition in Samoan culture and something that you can see in an exhibition at the Field Museum called America Samoa which highlights a lot of the cultural traditions of American Samoa which are the Samoan Islands that have been a US territory since 1900.
learn more about Siapos and also the art of tattooing which carries spiritual meaning to in the Samoan culture. So, to find out more about it, check out the story on abc7chicago.com.
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