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Ka Hana Kapa: The Making of Bark-Cloth in Hawaii - Bishop Museum 1911 - with all plates of separate plate volume bound in
by William T. Brigham
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/no dj as issued
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Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
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About This Item
Honolulu, HI: Bishop Museum Press, 1911. Custom Hardcover binding. very good/no dj as issued. Ka Hana Kapa: The Making of Bark-Cloth in Hawaii - Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History, III, 1911
-- iv, 273, iii. Illustrated with plates, chiefly black and white in main volume and supplemental portfolio of color plates bound in at rear. 29.5x23 cm (11½x9"), later half calf, rebacked with new spine, raised bands, lettered in gilt, all edges marbled. Original wrappers bound in.
-- Very rare and important publication of the Bishop Museum in Honolulu. Here with the normally separate and very hard to find color plates bound in.
--
Important study of this uniquely Hawaiian craft, complete with color plates, originally issued separately but here bound in, with binder's instruction leaf. The Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, designated the Hawai'i State Museum of Natural and Cultural History, is a museum of history and science in the historic Kalihi district of Honolulu on the Hawaiian island of O'ahu. Founded in 1889, it is the largest museum in Hawai'i and has the world's largest collection of Polynesian cultural artifacts and natural history specimens. Brigham was the first director of the Bishop Museum and the most important Hawaiian ethnologist from this period. -- Light edgewear to binding, some repairs to binding and hinges reinforced; front wrapper and pp.1-2 loose, other leaves tender; light toning but overall clean; very good or better.
-- Ships from Hawaii with free Priority Mail / UPS upgrade within US.
-- iv, 273, iii. Illustrated with plates, chiefly black and white in main volume and supplemental portfolio of color plates bound in at rear. 29.5x23 cm (11½x9"), later half calf, rebacked with new spine, raised bands, lettered in gilt, all edges marbled. Original wrappers bound in.
-- Very rare and important publication of the Bishop Museum in Honolulu. Here with the normally separate and very hard to find color plates bound in.
--
Important study of this uniquely Hawaiian craft, complete with color plates, originally issued separately but here bound in, with binder's instruction leaf. The Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, designated the Hawai'i State Museum of Natural and Cultural History, is a museum of history and science in the historic Kalihi district of Honolulu on the Hawaiian island of O'ahu. Founded in 1889, it is the largest museum in Hawai'i and has the world's largest collection of Polynesian cultural artifacts and natural history specimens. Brigham was the first director of the Bishop Museum and the most important Hawaiian ethnologist from this period. -- Light edgewear to binding, some repairs to binding and hinges reinforced; front wrapper and pp.1-2 loose, other leaves tender; light toning but overall clean; very good or better.
-- Ships from Hawaii with free Priority Mail / UPS upgrade within US.
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- Rare Books Honolulu
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1032L
- Title
- Ka Hana Kapa: The Making of Bark-Cloth in Hawaii - Bishop Museum 1911 - with all plates of separate plate volume bound in
- Author
- William T. Brigham
- Format/Binding
- Custom Hardcover binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- no dj as issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bishop Museum Press
- Place of Publication
- Honolulu, HI
- Date Published
- 1911
- Keywords
- Tapa, Polynesia, Kapa cloth Hawaii
- Bookseller catalogs
- Hawaii; Illustrated Books;
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