Pacific Bark-Cloth
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An article by Gertrude Whiting on the making, decoration and use of Pacific bark-cloth (kapa, tapa, siapo), drawing on accounts by Joseph Banks, Reinhold Forster, William Ellis, James Cook, William T. Brigham and others. It covers the trees used, stripping, soaking and beating, patching and pasting, dyeing and stamping with bamboo blocks, lace kapa, perfuming and waterproofing, sewing, and a glossary of Hawaiian, Samoan, Tahitian and Fijian terms. Comparisons are made to bark-cloth in Africa, Borneo and Malaya. Illustrations show kapa specimens from the Bishop Museum and British Museum, bamboo stamping sticks, and Hawaiian warriors with kapa beards.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1924
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 19
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