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Collections

Barkcloth (kapa)18th century

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Title
Barkcloth (kapa)
Place Made
Hawaiian Islands
Date Made
18th century
Medium
Paper mulberry inner bark, pigment
Dimensions
40 3/8 × 31 1/8 in. (102.5 × 79 cm) Frame: 47 × 37 1/8 × 1 7/8 in. (119.38 × 94.3 × 4.76 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the 2023 Collectors Committee
Accession Number
M.2023.104.4
Classification
Textiles
Collecting Area
Art of the Pacific
Provenance
Collected by John Webber, the artist traveling on the third voyage to the Pacific with Captain James Cook (1776-1780). (need vendor in Germany) 1950's purchased by Madame Lemaire, Amsterdam in Göttingen, Germany. [sale, Christie's, London, (need sale number), lot 47, 30 November 1994, sold to]; Mark Blackburn (b. 1953) and Carolyn Blackburn (b. 1956), Albuquerque, sold 2023 to; LACMA.
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