Tapa; all white with parallel beater marks; 1.26 x 1.33 cm. No beaten edges; all are cut, some irregularity. One tear, some insect pest damage. Excellent beater work and patching.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Marquesas, French Polynesia
Verbatim coll. place:
Hawaii
Culture or time period:
Hawaiian and Polynesian
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
1904
Department:
Oceania
Loans:
S1965-1966 #88: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (June 1, 1966–June 1, 1966), S1966-1967 #109: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (May 11, 1967–May 11, 1967), S1971-1972 #4: Department of Anthropology (Stanford Univ.)/Robert L. Hoover (July 12, 1971–July 26, 1971), and S1975-1976 #72: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (April 19, 1976–September 14, 1976)