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Object Number 37-9-70/489
Display Title Tapa
Descriptions
Object Description Sheets of tapa tied together, one pink. A five layer kapa moe (sleeping cloth). The five individual cloths are joined by stitching in the traditional manner (as described by Kooijman, Tapa in Polynesia, pp.168-9) with a strip of twisted kapa, along one long edge. All five cloths are of medium thickness and are composed of finely pounded off-white inner bark fibers.
Inventory Description Tapa, rectangular, multilayered, pink and blue striped outer, hatch and dot text
Classification
  • Tapa
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Hawaiian
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / United States / Hawaii
Dimensions Overall: 206 x 244 cm (81 1/8 x 96 1/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 37-9-70/489
Provenance
Collector Rev. Dr. C. M. Hyde (1890 ca.)
Donor Mrs. Alfred C. Hanford (Jan 19, 1937)

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