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:
7.1 Writing and Records (including religious texts)
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
For tapa design.
Department:
Oceania
Dimensions:
length 17.125 inches and diameter 0.25 inches
Comment:
Description: "'Ohe kapala; 'OHE-"bamboo" & KAPALA-"stamping, printing". Mookini, Elbert & Pukui "Hawaiian-English/English-Hawaiian Dictionary", p. 254. Design carved in relief at one end. Bamboo. 17 1/8" x 1/4" 1. Design cut in one end, See p. 195, Fig. 133a, rt." (fide Barbara (Kanani) Burns) Remarks: "1. Hiroa, Te Rangi (Peter Buck) "Arts and Crafts of Hawaii". pp. 192-202.
Loans:
S1962-1963 #34: Department of Anthropology (SF State University) (January 12, 1963–January 28, 1963) and S1963-1964 #51: Design Department (UC Berkeley) (November 27, 1963–January 11, 1964)