Tapa (Kapa) Beater
Unidentifed Kānaka Maoli maker
1828-1899
Wood
Overall: 14 15/16 × 1 1/8 × 1 1/8 in. (38 × 2.8 × 2.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Reverend Edward Leeds Gulick, Class of 1883
13.7.695
Geography
Place Made: Hawaii, Polynesia, Oceania
Period
19th century
Object Name
Textile: Tapa
Research Area
Oceania
Not on view
Provenance
Possibly collected by the Missionary Reverend Luther Halsey Gulick (1832-1891), in Hawaii, about 1862-1870; to his son, Edward Leeds Gulick (1862-1931), Class of 1883; given to presented collection, 1889.
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