Barkcloth kapa
Place: Hawaii
Category: Barkcloth
Hawaii, l. 62 cm, w. 85 cm, Inv. Oz 269
Humphrey No. 30: ‘a piece of thick Cloth, one side red, the other white striped with black, from the same Isles [Sandwich Isles].’
The barkcloth is thick and grooved; one side is dyed red. The other side is light in colour with a pattern of parallel black lines. Inken Köhler