Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Hawaiian Islands
Verbatim coll. place:
Hawaii
Culture or time period:
Hawaiian
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
For tapa design.
Department:
Oceania
Comment:
Description: "Bamboo 14 1/2" x 5/8". 'ohe kapala 'OHE-"bamboo", KAPALA "stamping, printing". Mookini Pukui & Elbert "Hawaiian-English, English-Hawaiian Dictionary" p. 254. 1. Stamp carved in one end, design a combination of grouped rhombs, p. 200, Fig. 138 a." (fide Barbara (Kanani) Burns) "n.h. This stamp is wood, very rare, see card 11-1189." Remarks: "See Brigham, W.T., "Ka Hana Kapa", 1911: p. 111-112. 1. Hiroa, Te Rangi (Peter Buck) "Arts and Crafts of Hawaii". pp. 192-202. Exhibited 1978 Settlement of Polynesia.
Loans:
S1962-1963 #34: Department of Anthropology (SF State University) (January 12, 1963–January 28, 1963), S1963-1964 #41: Department of Home Economics (UC Davis) (November 14, 1963–January 7, 1964), S1963-1964 #51: Design Department (UC Berkeley) (November 27, 1963–January 11, 1964), S1975-1976 #72: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (April 19, 1976–September 14, 1976), S1976-1977 #35: California Academy of Sciences (December 16, 1976–May 31, 1978), and S1994-1995 #10: SFO Museum (April 7, 1995–July 26, 1995)