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:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
For tapa design.
Department:
Oceania
Dimensions:
diameter 0.3125 inches and length 17.75 inches
Comment:
Description: "'OHE KAPALA, p. 254, Mookini, Elbert & Pukui, "Hawaiian-Eng., Eng.-Hawaiiann Dictionary". 'OHE-"bamboo" & KAPALA-"stamping, printing" Design carved in relief at one end. Bamboo. 17 3/4" x 5/16" wide. 1. Design & variation of oblique and crossed lines. See p. 197, Fig. 135b, bottom rt." (fide Barbara (Kanani) Burns) Remarks: "1. Te Rangi Hiroa (Peter Buck) "Arts and Crafts of Hawaii". pp. 192-202. Exhibited 1978 Settlement of Polynesia." Blue card: "Bamboo design stamps (ohe kapala) are dipped in dye and applied to the cloth surface. Hawaii. (UCLMA 11-1084, 1087, 1089-90)
Loans:
S1963-1964 #51: Design Department (UC Berkeley) (November 27, 1963–January 11, 1964), S1975-1976 #72: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (April 19, 1976–September 14, 1976), and S1994-1995 #10: SFO Museum (April 7, 1995–July 26, 1995)