Week 41

We're behind again. Sorry about that! We'll try catching up tonight. The Association of Hawaii Archivists had a fun field trip on Saturday, October 13th. We went to the Kamehameha Schools' Archives and got a wonderful tour of their facilities and collections.

This was the view from just outside the Archives 

A Hawaiian Flag quilt 

Archivist, Janet Zisk, demonstrates how a Kapa was made. 

Hawaiian Kapa unfolded. This particular Kapa is over 200 years old. An entire family would sleep under this Kapa. They have multiple layers of material. If the weather was warm, they could peel back a layer or two.

Here is the top of a Kapa to show what it would have looked like. The red piece at the top is the only scrap left from the original Kapa, which was a red color, something Hawaiians didn't have access to until foreigners started arriving and trading red cloth that they could use to make their own red materials. The larger brown piece has also had chunks taken out of it but demonstrates what it would have looked like.