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Tapa material
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Object Number 80-24-70/23090.1
Display Title Tapa material
Descriptions
Inventory Description Dried bark strip mass, natural color
Classification
  • Bark
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / United States / Hawaii
Materials Bark
Dimensions Overall: 41 x 27 x 6.6 cm (16 1/8 x 10 5/8 x 2 5/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 80-24-70/23090
Provenance
Collector John Lowell, Jr. (1836)
Donor Boston Society of Natural History (1880)

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