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Primitive papermaking: an account of a Mexican sojourn and of a voyage to the Pacific islands in search of information, implements, and specimens relating to the making & decorating of bark-paper

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  • Description

    [Detailed step-by-step descriptions of the indigenous processes of paper-making in various regions of the world including Mexico, Stanley Falls, Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Includes materials used, images of papermaking, and samples. The focus of this book is non-Western papermaking, in particular tapa, made from the pounding of inner barks. As the craft had already disappeared in some places he visited, some of the specimens were old.

    He travelled to Mexico, Hawaii, the East Indies, and many Pacific Islands.]

    "It is not the intention in this book to treat of paper formed upon hand-moulds in any of the accepted Asiatic or European methods, but to give account of personal research in the formation of sheets by the process of directly beating the bark of trees into leaves of paper by the use of mallets or clubs in the hands of the native craftsmen."--P.10.

  • Place
    Chillicothe, Ohio, United States
  • Other Id

    TS1090 HUN (Library of Congress Call Number)

    92376 (Cat ID)

    92174 (Presto content ID)

    ACQ-2020-12 (Acquisition number)

  • Department

    Publications

Dard Hunter Primitive Paper Making front cover

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Catalogue

  • Object Type

    book

  • Name/Title
    Primitive papermaking: an account of a Mexican sojourn and of a voyage to the Pacific islands in search of information, implements, and specimens relating to the making & decorating of bark-paper
  • Primary Maker

     Dard Hunter

  • Contributor/Publisher
    Mountain House Press
  • Place
    Chillicothe, Ohio, United States
  • Date
    1927
  • Physical Description

    47, [1] pages : frontispiece, illustrations, plates (part mounted, some color) mounted samples ; 44 cm

  • Language
    English
  • Level of Current Record
    Bib record
  • Member Object

    1 item in this collection. View all items.

  • Related Object Notes
    Dard Hunter business card; watermarked paper
  • Edition/State/Version
    No.24 of 200
  • Subject Category

    Decoration And Ornament/Library of Congress subject headings

    Indigenous peoples--Intellectual life

    Indigenous peoples--Research

  • Provenance Details
    "50516, #24/200, signed" hand-written in pencil on front endpaper.
  • Content
    Part I. The difference between the paper that is formed in a hand-mould and that which is beaten directly into sheets from the bark of trees. -- Part II. The making of bark-paper in Mexico and Java as the craft is still practiced, but where in a few years the art will pass into disuse and its memory be preserved only in museums and libraries. -- Part III. The making of bark-paper in localities where this material was once fabricated, but where now remains no trace of this old craft and where its memory has passed into oblivion. -- Part IV. The beating and decorating of bark-paper in Tonga, Fiji, and Samoa where the craft has been preserved from time immemorial. -- Bibliography
  • Public Access Text

    [Keywords: Tapa ; Kapa ; Hiapo ; Masi; Papermaking--Mexico; Papermaking--Oceania; Indigenous peoples--Communication; New Britain Island (Papua New Guinea)--Material culture; Yunnan Sheng (China)--Description and travel; Tubuai (French Polynesia) - Description and travel]

    In portfolio. Includes bibliographical references (page 48). Includes New Zealand Maori tapa-making on pages 33-34, alongside images of bark-paper beaters found in the Hatea river, made of manuka and kauri. Printed from hand-cut and hand-cast type. "The punches, matrices, moulds, and tools which were employed in the making of this type are now in the Smithsonian institution and after the cessation of my publishing the type itself will be destroyed."--Prefatory note "Owing to the methods used in producing this book the edition is necessarily limited. Two hundred copies have been printed. This copy is numbered 24" Signed: Dard Hunter. This book is partially printed in an ink, 'Tonga Brown', specifically designed for this book. List of paper samples: 1. Otomi Indians, Southern-Mexico (Cholulu) ? 2. Otomi Indians, Southern-Mexico ? 3. Middle-Amazon River, Peru ? 4. Cocle Indians, Panama ? 5. Java (deloewang paper, perdikan-desa Tegalsari, Arjawinangoen) ? 6. Java (Tegalari) ? 7. Bark of paper mulberry (broussonetia papyrifera) for deloewang paper ? 8. Madoera deloewang paper (Amboenten and Waroe, Madoera) ? 9. Java (deloewang paper, Tjinoenoekhilir, Sadang) ? 10. Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian pink-dyed bark-paper, kapa moe) ? 11. Sandwich Islands (Old Hawaiian bark-paper, kapa moe with halua) ? 12. Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian bark-paper from the time of King Lunalilio, beaten with a hoopai) ? 13. Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian paper with impressions from 3 bamboo printing-sticks) ? 14. Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian bark-paper using kuku carved in the mole halua pupu design) ? 15. Society Islands (fern print) ? 16. Marquesas Islands (hoopai-marked Hivaoa) ? 17. Austral Islands (Tubuai) ? 18. Wallis Island ? 19. North-east Borneo ? 20. Horne Islands ? 21. Middle-Celebes ? 22. New Hebrides Islands ? 23. Tongatabu pakoko ? 24. Tongatabu pakoko after beating (for kupesi) ? 25. Vavau bark-paper ? 26. Tongatabu bark-paper ? 27. Taviuni, Fiji Islands (seavu and masi kuvui) ? 28. Fiji Islands (masi kesa) ? 29. Samoan Islands (laua siapo) ? 30. Samoan Islands (faafeia using upeti). Watermarks on Hawaiian bark-paper with native names: Hoopai, mole halua, pupu, halua koeau, koeau, mole halua maka upena pupu, puili, hoopai halua, iwipuhi, halua niho mano, halua upena, pawehe, mole halua pupu, niho liilii, halua leihala, upena halua pupu, make upena, kapuai koloa, mole halua, lauma?u, mole pupu, halua niho mano, hoopai halua, halua puili, hoopai.

  • Subject Notes
    Dard Hunter was in influential American papermaker and printer in the first half of the 20th century. He was an authority on papermaking methods around the world, travelling widely internationally to capture traditional techniques and materials created for papermaking and printing.
  • Collection Type
    Reserve Collection - Extra Outsize
  • Copyright
    No known copyright restrictions
  • Last Update
    11 Mar 2024
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