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Object Number
67-9-70/118
Display Title
Decorated kapa fragment
Descriptions
Indigenous Term
Tapa or Kapa
Object Description
Small rectangular kapa fragment with geometric design. Light to medium weight, dense and opaque cloth; small size, cut edges, fiber grain orientation and the presence of a join suggest that the cloth may be a sample cut from a larger whole; cloth composed of a single layer of bark a starch adhesive/sizing appears to have been used throughout; manufacture related foldlines traverse the cloth cross-grain, all four edges are cut. One side of the cloth is decorated with a checkered pattern created by staggering repeating linear motif, applied in matte red-earth and black bound-pigment colorants by hand with liners. Design is very similar to the one drawn in Kooijman's Tapa in Polynesia, page 166 in Peabody Essex Museum, Salem E 25345.
Inventory Description
Tapa piece, rectangular, black and orange crosshatching, damage from folding
Classification
- Tapa
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Hawaiian
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
United States
/
Hawaii
Dimensions
Overall: 44.2 x 72.6 cm (17 3/8 x 28 9/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
118/ 118/BA/ 45.1284/ Cambridge
Credit Line
Gift of the Boston Athenaeum, 1867
Provenance
Donor
Boston Athenaeum
(1867)
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| 94-10-70/48375 | Kapa |
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for Small fragments in plastic bag from object 27-5-70/D2994
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Tapa
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| |
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| |
| 00-8-70/55415.1 | Tapa cloth |
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| |
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Tapa
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