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Large fragment of pink Hawaiian kapa cloth. Very thin, soft and translucent. Probably one of the inner layers of a kapa moe, or multi-layered sleeping cover. 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 secular, sacred, and ceremonial uses.
tapa (bark cloth)
tapa (bark cloth)
Original To Stephen Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
E16862
Unknown
Pacific Island Group
13 3/4 (H) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.3655
Originally published in 1920; full digital version available on HathiTrust - http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015018681802#page/n4/mode/1up
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