Catalog Number
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Catalog Number |
CAS 1989-0006-0017A-C | |
| Category | Textiles | |
| Object Name | Kapa fragments | |
| Culture | Polynesian: Hawaiian | |
| Global Region | Oceania | |
| Country | USA | |
| State/Prov./Dist. | Hawaii | |
| County | ||
| Other Geographic Data | Island: Hawaii; near Kawaihai | |
| Maker's Name | Unknown | |
| Date of Manufacture | ca. early to mid 1800s | |
| Collection Name | Ostheimer Collection (Hawaiian) | |
| Materials | Bark | |
| Description | 3 irregularly shaped fragments of kapa, made by beating strips of bark into very thin sheets; All fragments are dark brown in overall color and bear the same watermark of closely spaced, very thin, paired parallel lines alternating with a negative thin zigzag line; Fragment A is also painted with wide very dark brown stripes, alternating with wider stripes of the lighter colored dark brown background; Fragments B and C are painted with narrower parallel dark brown lines spaced approx. 0.6 cm apart on the lighter dark brown background; Fragment B also has a portion of a wider dark brown stripe along one edge; Fragments B and C were originally joined together (see photo); It is unknown if Fragment A was originally part of the same cloth as Fragments B and C, as all fragments have been cut along all edges. | |
| Dimensions (cm) | Width = 5.0, Length = 22.8 | |