Bark Cloth Sample

Sleeping Cloth Fragment

97-120-418

From: United States of America | Hawaiian Islands | Hawaii | Honokua

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

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Native Name Kapa Moe
Object Number 97-120-418
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Hawaiian
Provenience United States of America | Hawaiian Islands | Hawaii | Honokua
Creator Lohelohe of Honokua
Section Oceanian
Materials Paper-Mulberry Bark | Bark Cloth
Description

Material: Waoke.

Stamp of beater: Kapuai koloa.

Color: Yellow ochre and charcoal.

Scent: Awapuki.

Use: bed cover.

Length 23 cm
Width 15 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1997
Other Number L-120-418 - Old Museum Number | 10497 - ANSP Number | 2776 - Bishop Museum Number

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