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Object Number
90-17-70/48435.6
Display Title
Kapa
Descriptions
Object Description
Medium-brown kapa with ribbed linear beater patterning. Additional object description notes under Conservation.
Inventory Description
Tapa, folded, brown with textured mesh pattern, holes, 1 burn hole
Classification
- Tapa
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
United States
/
Hawaii
Materials
Tapa, Pigment, Beaten inner bark fiber
Dimensions
Overall: 130 x 198 cm (51 3/16 x 77 15/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
90-17-70/48435.6
Provenance
Donor
American Antiquarian Society
(1890)
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| |
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