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Kapa fragment from Hawaii, lavender brown with wavy embossed lines made during production. The fragment is very thin and translucent. Tapa (kapa in Hawaiian) 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)
Original To Stephen Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
E12506
Unknown
Pacitic Island Group
4 x 9 5/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.3642
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