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
Comment:
Description: "Bamboo. 16 5/8" x 5/16". 'Ohe kapala; 'OHE-"bamboo" & KAPALA-"stamping, printing". Mookini, Elbert & Pukui "Hawaiian-English/English-Hawaiian Dictionary", p. 254 1. Design carved in one end is "Ko'eau", rows of parallel chevrons. See p. 196, Fig. 134 a right. Stamps made by men, used by women." (fide Barbara (Kanani) Burns) Remarks: "1. Hiroa, Te Rangi (Peter Buck) "Arts and Crafts of Hawaii". pp. 192-202. Exhibited 1978 Settlement of Polynesia".
Loans:
S1963-1964 #41: Department of Home Economics (UC Davis) (November 14, 1963–January 7, 1964), S1967-1968 #66: Design Department (UC Berkeley)/Joanne Segal Brandford (December 5, 1967–December 7, 1967), 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)