Kapa (bark cloth)

Object status:
Deaccessioned
Museum number:
11-1186
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.101
Description:
Diamond watermarking, stippled with red fibres. Bark of paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera) beaten to form a sheet into which red fibres are beaten, entire piece is watermarked with patterned beaters. Indigenous name: "pa'i'ula" (tapa with red overlay). "Rolled specimen".
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Island of Hawai'i, Hawaiian Windward Islands, Hawaiian Islands
Verbatim coll. place:
Hawaii
Culture or time period:
Hawaiian
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
1903
Context of use:
Kilohana (Outer layer) of a kapa moe (sleeping tapa).
Department:
Oceania
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Kapa (bark cloth), accession number 11-1186, described as Diamond watermarking, stippled with red fibres. Bark of paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera) beaten to form a sheet into which red fibres are beaten, entire piece is watermarked with patterned beaters. Indigenous name: "pa'i'ula" (tapa with red overlay). "Rolled specimen".Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Kapa (bark cloth), accession number 11-1186, described as Diamond watermarking, stippled with red fibres. Bark of paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera) beaten to form a sheet into which red fibres are beaten, entire piece is watermarked with patterned beaters. Indigenous name: "pa'i'ula" (tapa with red overlay). "Rolled specimen".
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Kapa (bark cloth), accession number 11-1186, described as Diamond watermarking, stippled with red fibres. Bark of paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera) beaten to form a sheet into which red fibres are beaten, entire piece is watermarked with patterned beaters. Indigenous name: "pa'i'ula" (tapa with red overlay). "Rolled specimen".

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