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 Tahitiax and Hawaiian Kapa. 



1 . The upper specimen is so precisely like main* specimens of uudoubted 

 Hawaiian origin that I was disposed to claim it as such and made the photograph 

 from the small specimen in my private collection to show the variety rather than 

 use the very large specimens in this Museum. I am. however, inclined to place it 

 to the credit of the southern island, as I know such tapa was made there as well as 

 here. The specimen, No. E. 3156 in the Peabody Academy of Science in Salem, 

 was brought home by Captain Nathaniel Page between 1812 and 1818. The fabric 

 was made by beating in fragments of kapa of a darker color. 



2. The lower one is from a malo of Hawaiian make long in the collection of 

 the A. B. C. F. M., and from thence purchased for this Museum. The lilack lines 

 have a slight \'arnish on them and seem to be painted. 



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