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Hearst Museum object titled Iʻe kuku (tapa beater), accession number 11-625, described as Tapa beater. Square.

Hearst Museum object titled Kapa (bark cloth), accession number 11-1140, described as Sample of tapa.

Hearst Museum object titled Kapa (bark cloth), accession number 11-1139, described as Sample of tapa.

Hearst Museum object titled Kapa (bark cloth), accession number 11-624, described as Long, white and red.

Hearst Museum object titled Kapa (bark cloth), accession number 11-1142, described as Sample of tapa.

Hearst Museum object titled Kapa (bark cloth), accession number 11-1121, described as Sample of bark cloth.

Hearst Museum object titled Kapa (bark cloth), accession number 11-1153, described as Four separate layers: bottom layer undecorated, two middle layers watermarked with parallel diagonal lines, top layer watermarked with diamonds and colored red. Bark of paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera) beaten into sheets, one layer colored by beating in red fibres, watermarked with patterned beaters. 4 sheets "sewn" together at one edge w/twisted white kapa "cord". The outer cover, a very popular style has red fibers beaten onto a white sheet and covered w/an extremely gauzy overlay of white.