Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Island of Hawai'i, Hawaiian Windward Islands, Hawaiian Islands
Verbatim coll. place:
Hawaii
Culture or time period:
Hawaiian
Collector:
W. D. Armes
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Accession date:
1904
Department:
Oceania
Comment:
Description: "Plain; ordinary "kapa" or bark cloth. Made of paper mulberry inner bast, "wauke" (Broussonelia Papyrifera). Beaten by women. Off-white, no surface decor. "Watermark" shows when backlit. (Fide Barbara (Kanani) Burns, October 1985). Remarks: "W.T. Brigham. "Ka Hana Kapa", Bishop Museum, 1911. Simon Kooijman, "Tapa of Polynesia", Bishop Museum.
Loans:
S1961-1962 #25: Department of Geography (UC Berkeley)/D. I. Blumenstock (November 15, 1961–November 15, 1961), S1961-1962 #82: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (May 28, 1962–May 28, 1962), and S1994-1995 #10: SFO Museum (April 7, 1995–July 26, 1995)