Sample of Tunbaran bark, Artocarpus elastica, British North Borneo, 1885
date: label: date made
content: ca. 1885
notes: label: Description
content: Sample of Tunbaran bark, Artocarpus elastica, British North Borneo, 1885. Used for making Rimus bark cloth. One of a group of fiber samples given by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England, in 1885, to the US National Museum's economic botany collection.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Borneo
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Fibers & Economic Botany
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T00648
label: accession number
content: 16188
label: catalog number
content: T648
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fiber sample, artocarpus elastica
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: Artocarpus elastica (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 7/8 in x 15 1/4 in x 5 3/8 in; 7.3025 cm x 38.735 cm x 13.6525 cm