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Small kapa fragment from Hawaii, brown ground with alternating bands of white stripes and ovals. Reverse side has embossed lines typical of kapa production. Kapa (the Hawaiian word for tapa) is a cloth made from the inner bark of certain trees and is widely used in the Pacific for clothing and bedding, as well as other secular, sacred, and ceremonial uses.
tapa (bark cloth)
tapa (bark cloth)
"3170" (Handwritten in pencil on white side)
Stephen Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
E3170
Unknown
Pacific Island Group
4 3/8 x 7 3/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.3634
first published by Auckland Museum
Hawaii (United States)
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