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Decorated kapa fragment with four smaller cut samples
Object Number 90-17-70/48434.9
Display Title Decorated kapa fragment with four smaller cut samples
Descriptions
Indigenous Term kapa
Object Description Small rectangular cut piece of kapa with stamped and lined decoration on one side and yellow dye on rear side, with four smaller cut pieces of different kapa gathered at upper facing right corner. Additional object description under Conservation.
Inventory Description Tapa, rectangular, polychrome linear and dot design, gathered tied fringe at cor
Classification
  • Tapa
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Hawaiian
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / United States / Hawaii
Materials Tapa, Pigment, Vegetable fiber, Unidentified pigment, Dye, Beaten inner bark fiber
Dimensions Overall: 58.42 x 59.69 x 5.08 cm (23 x 23 1/2 x 2 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 90-17-70/48434.9; Presented to the / American antiquarian Society / by Mrs. Mary
Provenance
Donor American Antiquarian Society (1890)

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