Tapa (Kapa) Strip
Unidentifed Kānaka Maoli maker
1830-1860
Bark and freehand painted brown
Overall: 1 15/16 × 33 7/16 in. (5 × 85 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
13.2.600
Geography
Place Made: Hawaii, Polynesia, Oceania
Period
19th century
Object Name
Textile: Tapa
Research Area
Oceania
Not on view
Provenance
Source unknown (possibly an early Hawaiian Missionary); donated to Dartmouth College, in the late 18th or 19th century; catalogued, 1913.
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