Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Hawaiian Islands
Culture or time period:
Hawaiian
Collector:
W. D. Armes
Collection date:
1890
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Accession date:
1904
Department:
Oceania
Dimensions:
length 10 inches and width 5 inches
Comment:
Description: "Approx. 5" x 10" Ordinary, plain, off-white "kapa" or bark cloth. Beaten by women from inner bast of the paper mulberry "wawke" (Broussonetia Papyrifera). "Watermark" shows when let from back." (fide, Barbara (Kanani) Burns, October 1985. Remarks: "W.T. Brigham. "Ka Hana Kapa" (see card 11-1140)
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)