Bark Cloth Sample

Sleeping Cloth Fragment

97-120-415

From: United States of America | Hawaiian Islands | Kalaiki

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

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Native Name Kapa Moe
Object Number 97-120-415
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Hawaiian
Provenience United States of America | Hawaiian Islands | Kalaiki
Creator Ahuole of Kalaiki
Section Oceanian
Materials Bark Cloth | Paper-Mulberry Bark | Pipturus albidus Bark
Technique Beaten | Printed
Description

Material: Waoke and mamaki.

Stamp of beater: hoopai.

Pattern: Kuilewa or bent knee.

Length 23 cm
Width 15 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1997
Other Number L-120-415 - Old Museum Number | 10494 - ANSP Number | 2373 - Bishop Museum Number

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