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Object Number
90-17-70/48434.1
Display Title
Man's loincloth
Descriptions
Indigenous Term
kapa
Object Description
Tapa cloth, striped design. Malo (man's loin cloth) with embossed and applied colored design. A thick, dense, rather stiff cloth of minimally beaten off-white inner bark fibers; two lengths of bark joined by stitching with an unspun bast-like fiber sewing strand; (~4 stitches/cm; see Kooijman p. 112, second example, for stitching diagram). Additional notes under conservation.
Inventory Description
Tapa strip, buff with reddish brown and black linear pigmented design
Classification
- Tapa
Department
Ethnographic
Date
late 18th-early 19th Century
Culture
- Hawaiian
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
United States
/
Hawaii
Materials
Tapa, Pigment, Beaten inner bark fiber
Dimensions
Overall: 278.5 x 34.2 cm (109 5/8 x 13 7/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
90-17-70/48434.1
Credit Line
Gift of the American Antiquarian Society, 1890
Provenance
Donor
American Antiquarian Society
(1890)
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| PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience | SHARE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 90-17-70/48435.4 | Barkcloth |
Tapa
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Hawaii?
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| 90-17-70/48431 | Kapa |
Tapa
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Aitutaki
| |
| 37-9-70/489 | Tapa |
Tapa
|
Hawaii
| |
| 67-10-70/324 | Barkcloth |
Tapa
|
Hawaii
| |
| 67-9-70/118 | Decorated kapa fragment |
Tapa
|
Hawaii
| |
| 18-20-70/D1149 | Hand-painted loincloth |
Tapa
|
New Britain
| |
| 90-17-70/48433.3 | Tapa |
Tapa
|
Hawaii
| |
| 94-10-70/48374 | Kapa |
Shirt
|
Hawaii County
| |
| 67-9-70/120 | Fine tapa fragment |
Tapa
|
Hawaii
| |
| 71-8-70/2899.1 | Undecorated brown-toned tapa |
Tapa
|
Hawaii
| |
| 85-7-70/37608 | Small booklet of cut kapa samples |
Book
|
Hawaii
| |
| 94-10-70/48375 | Kapa |
Tapa
|
Hawaii County
|