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Object Number
85-7-70/37611
Display Title
Tapa
Descriptions
Indigenous Term
Tapa or Kapa
Object Description
Tapa cloth, large sheets. A five layer kapa moe (sleeping cloth) with the five individual cloths joined by stitching with a twisted red-brown colored kapa strip. See Kooijman, Tapa in Polynesia, pages 168-69. Additional notes under conservation.
Inventory Description
Tapa, overall red-brown colored pattern
Classification
- Tapa
Department
Ethnographic
Date
before 1885
Culture
- Hawaiian
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
United States
/
Hawaii
/
Honolulu County
Dimensions
Overall: 248 x 309 cm (97 5/8 x 121 5/8 in.)
Quantity
1
Provenance
Collector
Alexander Agassiz
(1884-1885 - April 25, 1885)
Donor
Alexander Agassiz
(1884-1885 - April 25, 1885)
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37-9-70/489 | Tapa |
Tapa
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Hawaii
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| 76-51-70/11012 | Sleeping cloth of five kapa sheets |
Tapa
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Hawaii
| |
| 85-7-70/37608 | Small booklet of cut kapa samples |
Book
|
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
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| 85-7-70/37610 | Tapa |
Tapa
|
Hawaii
| |
| 90-17-70/48433.4 | Tapa |
Tapa
|
Hawaii
| |
| 90-17-70/48434.1 | Man's loincloth |
Tapa
|
Hawaii
| |
| 98-8-70/51703 | Large tapa curtain |
Tapa
|
Naroi
Moala | |
| 99-1-70/52212 | Tapa cloth, white |
Tapa
|
Hawaii County?
| |
| 91-6-70/50769.4 | Sash of tapa cloth, Fijian masi |
Tapa
|
Fiji
| |
| 85-7-70/37625 | Tapa |
Tapa
|
Honolulu County
| |
| 98-8-70/51691 | White tapa cloth |
Tapa
|
Fiji
|