Tapa (Kapa) Sample
Unidentifed Kānaka Maoli maker
1820-1840
Freehand painted bark
Overall: 8 7/16 × 5 1/8 in. (21.5 × 13 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Reverend Hiram Bingham
13.6.694
Geography
Place Made: Hawaii, Polynesia, Oceania
Period
19th century
Object Name
Textile: Tapa
Research Area
Oceania
Not on view
Provenance
Collected by Reverend Hiram Bingham (1789-1869), Missionary in Hawaii, 1819-1841; given to present collection, before 1888; catalogued in 1913.
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