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William Joseph "Dard" Hunter
Nationality: 
american
Gender: 
Male
Birth Date: 
1883
Birth Place: 
Steubenville, OH
Death Date: 
1966
(a) A facsimile of a section of a robe which was made of decorated bark-paper by the aborigines of Peru and (b) a facsimile of a sheet of old bark-paper from Panama which was used by Cocle Indians in lieu of cloth, from the book Primitive Papermaking in M
(a) A facsimile of a section of a robe which was made of decorated bark-paper by the aborigines of Peru and (b) a facsimile of a sheet of old bark-paper from Panama which was used by Cocle Indians in lieu of cloth, from the book Primitive Papermaking in M
(a) A facsimile of an ancient piece of Tahitian bark-paper which was decorated by dipping ferns in vegetable dye and imprinting the object upon the sheet and (b) an actual specimen of hoopai-marked paper from the Island of Hivaoa, from the book Primitive
(a) A fine example of Hawaiian bark-paper from the time of King Lunalito (1839-1894) and (b) a facsimile of an old, finely-ornamented bark-paper from the Hawaii, from the book Primitive Papermaking in Mexico and the Pacific Islands
(a) A reproduction of a piece of ornamented bark-paper from Celebes and (b) a facsimile of a corner of a large piece of bark-paper which was beaten and decorated by the cannibalistic Melanesians who reside on the little-known Islands of New Hebrides, from
(a) A reproduction of a portion of a bark-paper war garment which was fabricated by one of the tribes of North-east Borneo and (b) the bark-paper decoration of the Horne Islands is composed of innumerable cross lines in brown and black, from the book Prim
(a) A specimen of paper mulberry bark (pakoko) which has been prepared for pounding into sheets of paper and (b) this specimen shows the bark after many hours of beating, from the book Primitive Papermaking in Mexico and the Pacific Islands
(a) A specimen of Tongan bark-paper which was beaten, pasted, and decorated about fifty years ago and (b) a modern example of Tongan bark-paper which was beaten and decorated near Nukualofa, Tongatabu Island, from the book Primitive Papermaking in Mexico
(a) A specimen of unfinished Somoan bark-paper (lana siapo) which was beaten on the Island of Savaii and (b) an example of modern Samoan decorated bark-paper (faafeia), which was ornamented in an all-over pattern by the use of a carved board (upeti) and r
(a) An original example of bark-paper from the Island of Tubuai and (b) a sheet of old paper which was cut from a piece that originally contained forty-eight square feet, from the book Primitive Papermaking in Mexico and the Pacific Islands
(a) An original specimen of Hawaiian pink-dyed bark-paper which was cut from a kapa moe, seven by nine feet and (b) old Hawaiian bark-paper which was taken from the same kapa moe as the specimen above, from the book Primitive Papermaking in Mexico and the
(a) An original specimen of moral paper from the region of Cholulu, Southern Mexico and (b) an original specimen of xalama paper from Southern Mexico, from the book Primitive Papermaking in Mexico and the Pacific Islands
(a) Javanese workers beating mulberry bark into sheets of deloewang paper in the perdikan-desa Tegalsari, near Ponorogo, Madioen and (b) a specimen of the bark of the paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera), from which the fine deloewang papers of Java a
(a) The finest deloewang paper is made in the districts Amboenten and Waroe, Madoera, a small island north-east of Java proper and (b) this specimen, the crudest of deloewang papers, was beaten in Toenggilis of the desa Tjinoenoekhilir, Sadang, near Garoe
(a) The specimen of white bark-paper (seavu) is ready for decorating and (b) an old decorated bark-paper (masi kesa) from Fiji, from the book Primitive Papermaking in Mexico and the Pacific Islands
An elaborately designed Fijian bark-paper which was decorated about thirty years ago, from the book Primitive Papermaking in Mexico and the Pacific Islands
An example of early Hawaiian bark-paper which was produced by the use of a wooden beater (ie kuku) carved in the mole halua pupu design, from the book Primitive Papermaking in Mexico and the Pacific Islands
An exceptionally large sheet of kupesi-marked bark-paper which is about to receive the final decorative treatment consisting of free-hand lines in glossy black painted with pieces of glass, slate, or bamboo, from the book Primitive Papermaking in Mexico a
Coconut fibre printing mats (kupesi) which were fabricated near Nukualofa, Tongatabu, Tonga, from the book Primitive Papermaking in Mexico and the Pacific Islands
Fijian women decorating native bark-paper by the use of stencils, from the book Primitive Papermaking in Mexico and the Pacific Islands

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