Island of Hawai'i, Hawaiian Windward Islands, Hawaiian Islands
Verbatim coll. place:
Hawaii
Culture or time period:
Hawaiian
Collector:
Mildred Clemens Lewis
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Tapa (bark cloth)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
1952
Department:
Oceania
Comment:
Remarks: "Exhibited 1978 Settlement of Polynesia" Blue exhibit label: "Old Hawaiian tapa bedcover showing decorative impressions from a patterned beater. The Hawaiians used more kinds of dyes than most Polynesians, and this piece illustrates one of their more unusual colors. (UCLMA 11-3391)
Loans:
S1976-1977 #35: California Academy of Sciences (December 16, 1976–May 31, 1978)