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Object Number
67-9-70/120
Display Title
Fine tapa fragment
Descriptions
Indigenous Term
Tapa or Kapa
Object Description
Thin, light weight kapa fragment of finely beaten off-white inner bark fibers.The fibers are so well macerated and enmeshed that joins and boundaries of any individual bark strips present are indicernible. The grain direction of the fibers is parallel to the short dimension of the cloth. All four edges of the cloth are cut. One short edge, however, is less worn and abraded than the others, and appears to have been more recently cut. No manufacture related foldlines are obvious. The cloth is "watermarked" throughout with a beater pattern of very small, diagonally oriented, regularly repeating rectangles. One side of the cloth is decorated with a matte black opaque colorant. The colorant is applied with liners and variously patterned relief cut stamps.
Inventory Description
Tapa, rectangular, buff with black thin triangular linear designs, zigzag border
Classification
- Tapa
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Hawaiian
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
United States
/
Hawaii
Dimensions
Overall: 94 x 55 cm (37 x 21 5/8 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
120/ BA/ 120/ 45.1285/ Cambridge
Provenance
Donor
Boston Athenaeum
(1867)
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| PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience | SHARE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 67-9-70/118 | Decorated kapa fragment |
Tapa
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Hawaii
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| 67-9-70/122 | Tapa |
Tapa
|
Hawaii
| |
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for Small fragments in plastic bag from object 27-5-70/D2994
| 27-5-70/D2994.1 | Small fragments in plastic bag from object 27-5-70/D2994 |
Hawaii
| ||
| 94-10-70/48375 | Kapa |
Tapa
|
Hawaii County
| |
| 00-8-70/55415.1 | Tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Aitutaki
| |
| 67-10-70/324 | Barkcloth |
Tapa
|
Hawaii
| |
| 90-17-70/48433.3 | Tapa |
Tapa
|
Hawaii
| |
| 98-8-70/51691 | White tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Fiji
| |
| 92-4-70/48376 | Strip of tapa |
Tapa
|
Samoa
| |
| 56-41-70/3800.2 | Piece of red tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Papeete
| |
| 56-41-70/3801 | Piece of white tapa (9' 6" x 13' 5") |
Tapa
|
Society Islands
Tahiti | |
| 71-8-70/2899 | Small kapa cloth sample |
Tapa
|
Hawaii
|