Bark Cloth Sample

Sleeping Cloth Fragment

97-120-419

From: United States of America | Hawaiian Islands

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

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Native Name Kapa
Object Number 97-120-419
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Hawaiian
Provenience United States of America | Hawaiian Islands
Section Oceanian
Materials Bark Cloth | Pigment
Description

Material: Waoke.

Stamp of beater: Hoopai halua.

Pattern: Puka.

Color: a sheet of white beaten to a sheet of black punctured.

Use: bed cover.

Length 23 cm
Width 15 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1997
Other Number L-120-419 - Old Museum Number | 10498 - ANSP Number | 2450 - Bishop Museum Number

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