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Object Number
99-1-70/52212
Display Title
Tapa cloth, white
Descriptions
Object Description
Tapa cloth, white, perhaps a Hawaiian kapa sheet from a kapa moe. The off-white cloth is a fine to medium weight cloth, one layer, with a ribbed linear beater pattern running widthwise (fibers run lengthwise). Beater patterning or 'watermarking' is similar to the one featured in Brigham Vol III, Plate BB no. 10. The top and bottom edges and one side edge are natural, raw finished and the remaining side edge has been cut. Catalogue number is written in red paint 3 inches from bottom edge. Additional object description notes under Conservation.
Inventory Description
Tapa, buff with textured linear designs, rectangular, folded
Classification
- Tapa
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Hawaiian?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
United States
/
Hawaii
/
Hawaii County?
Additional Geographic Terms
Southeast Pacific?
Materials
Tapa, Beaten inner bark fiber
Dimensions
Overall: 160 x 75 cm (63 x 29 1/2 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
52212
Provenance
Collector
Mr. Ballestier
(1845-1846)
Intermediary
Dr. Walter Faxon
Donor
Heirs of Warren Delano
(1899)
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Tapa
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Tapa
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| |
| 90-17-70/48433.3 | Tapa |
Tapa
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| |
| 80-24-70/23087.2 | Tapa |
Tapa
|
Hawaii
| |
| 85-7-70/37625 | Tapa |
Tapa
|
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Tapa
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| |
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|
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| |
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|
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| |
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Tapa
|
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| |
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Tapa
|
Hawaii
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