Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Island of Hawai'i, Hawaiian Windward Islands, Hawaiian Islands
Verbatim coll. place:
Hawaii
Culture or time period:
Hawaiian
Collector:
W. D. Armes
Collection date:
unknown
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 for ref.)
Loans:
S1961-1962 #25: Department of Geography (UC Berkeley)/D. I. Blumenstock (November 15, 1961–November 15, 1961), S1961-1962 #62: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (April 12, 1962–April 12, 1962), and S1994-1995 #10: SFO Museum (April 7, 1995–July 26, 1995)