Bark cloth
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.
Donated by Rear Admiral CB Preedy in 1879.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- VS1515
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Textiles and equipment
- Collection Area Region
- Polynesia
- Material
- bark cloth | | | |
- Common Name
- bark cloth
- Simple Name
- cloth
- Production Town
- Honolulu
- Production County
- O’ahu
- Production Country
- Hawaiian Islands (United States of America)
- Production Person Initials
- Production Person Surname
- Production Year Low
- Production Year High
- 1864
