Kapa fragment, white with a small area of grey markings. This fragment was cut from a larger sample. Kapa (the Hawaiian word for tapa) is a cloth made from the inner bark of trees and is widely used in the Pacific for clothing and bedding, as well as secular, sacred, and ceremonial uses.
tapa (bark cloth)
tapa (bark cloth)
"10752" (handwriting on one side of fragment)
Original To Stephen Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
E10752
Unknown
Pacific Island Group
4 3/4 (H) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.3629
Full reprint of 1920 Peabody Museum publication available on Hathi Digital
Hawaii (United States)
Hawaii county (Hawaii) [county]
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