Bark Cloth Sample

97-120-421

From: United States of America | Hawaiian Islands | Kauai

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

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Native Name Kapa
Object Number 97-120-421
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Hawaiian
Provenience United States of America | Hawaiian Islands | Kauai
Section Oceanian
Materials Bark Cloth | Pigment
Technique Beaten | Printed
Description

Bark cloth fragment of a man's garment.

Material: Waoke

Stamp of beater: hoopai halua.

Color: Alaea, olena, nanahu

Native name: Kihei

Use: Man's outer dress.

Source: Kauai.

Length 23 cm
Width 15 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1997
Other Number L-120-421 - Old Museum Number | 10501 - ANSP Number | 2434 - Bishop Museum Number

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