Garment

87-43-3

From: Hawaiian Islands

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

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Object Number 87-43-3
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Hawaiian
Provenience Hawaiian Islands
Section Oceanian
Materials Bark Cloth | Pigment
Technique Beaten
Inscription Language English Language
Description

Woman's garment. Bands of multiple lines of black zigzags along end and up middle, plus stamped three-dash pattern. Handwritten at one end: American Philisophical Society / Native Cloth from Sandwich Islands / presented by Sylvanus Godon. Donated to the American Philosophical Society by Sylvanus William Godon, U.S.N.

Length 267 cm
Width 89 cm
Credit Line Gift of American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1987
Other Number L-120-355 - Old Museum Number | 4479 - ANSP Number

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