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Kapa fragment, white with embossed criss-crossing lines that create translucent diamond shapes. Kapa is the Hawaiian term for tapa, a cloth made from the inner bark of certain trees and widely used in the Pacific for clothing and bedding, as well as other secular, sacred, and ceremonial uses.
tapa (bark cloth)
tapa (bark cloth)
Stephen Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
E10767
Unknown
Pacific Island Group
3 5/8 x 9 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.3631
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Hawaii (United States)
Hawaii county (Hawaii) [county]
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