Barkcloth / Tapa cloth
date: label: Accession Date
content: 8 Apr 2005
name: label: Donor Name
content: Elsie S. Kawaonaheleopai'i Durante
notes: label: Notes
content: Tapa cloth, Kapa, or barkcloth, done in overlaying style. Two pieces, one white, one red, beaten together. Called pa'i'ula style. Edged in white tapa. Has large criss-cross ('upena pupu) design on red side. Red surface could have been made using red cotton trade cloth ("Turkey red" cloth) fragmented and beaten into the top of uncolored kapa. Significant water and folding damage, and holes.
label: Notes
content: Four layers, all watermarked; top/outer layer red. Sewn with kapa.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Mar 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Hawaii (Hawaiʻi), United States, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hawaiian (Kanaka ʻŌiwi, Kanaka Maoli)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2033777
label: USNM Number
content: E430803-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth