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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?
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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| PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience | SHARE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 92-4-70/48378.3 | Tapa cloth sash of King's daughter |
Tapa
|
Samoa
| |
| 92-4-70/48378.2 | Tapa cloth sash of King's daughter |
Tapa
|
Samoa
| |
| 98-8-70/51703 | Large tapa curtain |
Tapa
|
Naroi
Moala | |
| 37-50-70/617 | Large piece of tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Samoa?
| |
| 46-44-70/2282 | Man's decorated tapa |
Tapa
|
Papua New Guinea
| |
| 67-9-70/118 | Decorated kapa fragment |
Tapa
|
Hawaii
| |
| 14-29-70/85716 | Tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Fiji
| |
| 99-15-70/53901 | Tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Samoa
| |
| 14-29-70/85717 | Tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Fiji
| |
| 34-137-70/298 | Piece of tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Niaufo'ou (Tin Can Island)
| |
| 14-23-70/85657 | Tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Samoa
| |
| 44-20-70/2266 | Round piece of tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Samoa
|