Island of Hawai'i, Hawaiian Windward Islands, Hawaiian Islands
Verbatim coll. place:
Hawaii
Culture or time period:
Hawaiian
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Accession date:
1903
Department:
Oceania
Comment:
Remarks: "Exhibited 1978 Settlement of Polynesia" Blue card: "Large Hawaiian tapa bedcover composed of several sheets stitched together like the leaves of a book along one edge, arranged so that as the temperature changes during the night more sheets can be pulled over. The faint patterns are imparted by the carved beater. (UCLMA 11-624)
Loans:
S1963-1964 #51: Design Department (UC Berkeley) (November 27, 1963–January 11, 1964) and S1975-1976 #72: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (April 19, 1976–September 14, 1976)