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"Puanani Making Kapa"
The making of bark cloth from
the white inner bark of the paper mulberry and other trees was widespread in
Polynesia. Originally known as tapa, it is pronounced kapa in
Hawai'i, where the art reached its highest refinement, often made up of several
paper-thin layers sewn together with the facing layer beautifully decorated.
Page 143, Voyagers
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