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Object Number 69-20-70/1394
Display Title Tapa
Descriptions
Indigenous Term Tapa or Kapa
Inventory Description Tapa, rectangular, 1 side herringbone woven fiber with seed border, coarse bark
Classification
  • Tapa
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Hawaiian
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / United States / Hawaii
Oceania / Malaysia / Borneo
Dimensions Overall: 54.3 x 34.5 x 2.8 cm (21 3/8 x 13 9/16 x 1 1/8 in.)
Quantity 2
Label on object 1394
Provenance
Lender Boston Marine Society (1869)

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