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Man's loincloth
Object Number 90-17-70/48434.1
Display Title Man's loincloth
Descriptions
Indigenous Term kapa
Object Description Tapa cloth, striped design. Malo (man's loin cloth) with embossed and applied colored design. A thick, dense, rather stiff cloth of minimally beaten off-white inner bark fibers; two lengths of bark joined by stitching with an unspun bast-like fiber sewing strand; (~4 stitches/cm; see Kooijman p. 112, second example, for stitching diagram). Additional notes under conservation.
Inventory Description Tapa strip, buff with reddish brown and black linear pigmented design
Classification
  • Tapa
Department Ethnographic
Date late 18th-early 19th Century
Culture
  • Hawaiian
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / United States / Hawaii
Materials Tapa, Pigment, Beaten inner bark fiber
Dimensions Overall: 278.5 x 34.2 cm (109 5/8 x 13 7/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 90-17-70/48434.1
Credit Line Gift of the American Antiquarian Society, 1890
Provenance
Donor American Antiquarian Society (1890)

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