"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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