Tapa (Kapa) Scrap

Unidentifed Kānaka Maoli maker

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1820-1841

Painted Bark

Overall: 3 15/16 × 2 3/8 in. (10 × 6 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Reverend Hiram Bingham

13.6.691

Geography

Place Made: Hawaii, Polynesia, Oceania

Period

19th century

Object Name

Textile: Tapa

Research Area

Oceania

Not on view

Provenance

Collected by Rev. Hiram Bingham, (Missionary in Hawaii, 1819-1841); given to present collection, before 1888; catalogued in 1913.

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