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Object Number 69-20-70/51521
Display Title Decorated kapa fragment
Descriptions
Indigenous Term Tapa or Kapa
Inventory Description Tapa, tan, black and orange linear and crosshatched bands, rectangular cutout
Classification
  • Tapa
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Hawaiian
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / United States / Hawaii?
Dimensions Overall: 62 x 44 cm (24 7/16 x 17 5/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 51521/ 45.1283/ Cambridge
Provenance
Lender Boston Marine Society (1869)

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