Fabric Type 30

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Description

A coarse, strong Society Islands cloth made from breadfruit bast.

References

  • Brigham, W.T. (1911). Ka hana kapa, the making of bark-cloth in Hawaii. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology & Natural History, Vol. III. Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press

Images

Kew EBC 42947a. Colour photograph of a Tahitian tiputa poncho of the 1860s, collected by HRH Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Cobourg and Gotha, on the voyages of HMS Galatea. Immersion dyed a dark orange-yellow colour closely associated with turmeric, and over-printed throughout with hand-prints in a red pigment. (Copyright Economic Botany Collection, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)
Kew EBC 42947a. A Tahitian tiputa poncho of the 1860s (© Economic Botany Collection, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)

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Entry created on 28 August 2020