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Small fragment of kapa, or Hawaiian barkcloth. White ground decorated with bands of black and red wavy lines and red bands. 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 other secular, sacred, and ceremonial uses.
tapa (bark cloth)
tapa (bark cloth)
Original To Stephen Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
E3160
Unknown
Pacific Island Group
7 1/2 x 1 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.3638
Origanally published by the Peabody Museum of Salem in 1920. Full reproduction available on Hathi Digital Trust. http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015018681802#page/n4/mode/1up
Hawaii (United States)
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