Kapa (bark cloth)

Object status:
Deaccessioned
Museum number:
11-2693
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Accession number:
Acc.1938Q
Description:
8 small tapa samples stitched together.
Donor:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection place:
Island of Hawai'i, Hawaiian Windward Islands, Hawaiian Islands
Verbatim coll. place:
Hawaii
Culture or time period:
Hawaiian
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Tapa (bark cloth)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Accession date:
March 28, 1938
Department:
Oceania
Comment:
Description: "Kapa", barkcloth. All pieces seem to be made of Broussonetia papyrifera or paper mulberrry/"wawke". [referring to group of 8 samples] No 4 very fragile." Location: "Hawaii att. (MS 1978) Hawaii (fide Barbara (Kanani) Burns, 1985)" Remarks: "attributed on basis of printed designs. See [Simon] Kooijman, "Tapa in Polynesia" Brigham, "Ka Hana Kapa", Bishop Museum Memoirs, 1911.
Loans:
S1967-1968 #66: Design Department (UC Berkeley)/Joanne Segal Brandford (December 5, 1967–December 7, 1967) and S1975-1976 #72: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (April 19, 1976–September 14, 1976)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Kapa (bark cloth), accession number 11-2693, described as 8 small tapa samples stitched together.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Kapa (bark cloth), accession number 11-2693, described as 8 small tapa samples stitched together.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Kapa (bark cloth), accession number 11-2693, described as 8 small tapa samples stitched together.

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