Bark cloth
- Description
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Length of bark cloth with a design of squares with ten-pointed stars made by use of a stamp. Said by the donor to have been called ‘Waiti’ (wauke is the name for the paper mulberry tree in Hawaii)
Donated by Rear Admiral CB Preedy in 1879. - Accession Loan No.
- VS1515
- Collection Class
- Textiles and equipment
- Common Name
- bark cloth
- Simple Name
- cloth
- Full Name
- barkcloth (kapa)
- Dimensions
- whole length 2190 mm; whole width 1100 mm
- Production Year High
- 1864
- Production Town
- Honolulu
- Production County
- O’ahu
- Production Country
- Hawaiian Islands (United States of America)
- Production Area Region
- Polynesia
- Production Continent
- Oceania
- Family Group
- Material
- bark cloth
- Function Name
- textile
- Collection Area Region
- POLYN
- Collection Continent
- Pacific
