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Native cloth or tapa, collected by Captain Cook?
Native cloth or tapa, collected by Captain Cook?
Object Number 69-20-70/1270
Display Title Native cloth or tapa, collected by Captain Cook?
Descriptions
Indigenous Term Tapa or kapa
Object Description Native cloth or tapa, collected by Captain Cook?. Narrow painted serrated black lines running across width of the medium-weight tapa. In chapter on Cook Islands, Kooijman 1972 refers to this cloth and a similar cloth wrapping a staff god (pp. ).
Inventory Description Tapa, thin cloth, rectangular, black and white striped design, thick black lines
Classification
  • Tapa
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Hawaiian?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / United States / Hawaii?
Materials Dye , Unidentified pigment , Vegetable fiber
Dimensions Overall: 244 × 87 cm (96 1/16 × 34 1/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 1270
Credit Line Gift of the Boston Marine Society, 1869
Provenance
Collector Capt. James Cook
Lender Boston Marine Society (1869)

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