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Small tapa fragment, dark brown/black on both sides with closely spaced embossed parallel lines. Likely Hawaiian in origin. Tapa (or kapa in Hawaii) 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.),
E12506
Unknown
Pacific Island Group
2 3/4 x 4 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.3645
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