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Bark Cloth (kapa) with Impressed Patterning and Natural Pigments

1767-1798

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  • Culture: Hawaiian
  • Artist Artist: Unidentified

Bark Cloth (kapa) with Impressed Patterning and Natural Pigments

1767-1798

Physical Qualities Bark cloth, pigment, 45 × 17 1/2 in. (114.3 × 44.5 cm.)
Credit Line Anonymous Gift
Object Number 2023.341
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2023; Private collection by purchase, 2008; Sotheby's Arts d'Afrique, Paris, sale #PF8018, 12/4/08; Sam Kamakau, by family descent from Samuel Mānaiakalani Kamakau (1815-1876)
The Matter of Bark Cloth
David Young, Na Mea Makame: Hawaiian Treasures, 1999: 45​
Don Severson, Michael Horikawa, and Jennifer Saville, Finding Paradise: Island Art in Private Collections, 2002: 30

https://www.kaainamomona.org/post/samuel-kamakau

Culture

Hawaiian

2000–2000

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Artist Artist

Unidentified

2000-01-01 00:00:00–2000-01-01 00:00:00

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