Tapa
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: Very long barkcloth, consisting of 2 pieces with different patterns pasted together in the middle. One is narrower than the other and is gray toned. Design on narrower section is divided into two patterns. One part is stamped design completely in a glossy black (from the soot and oil of the candlenut, or kukui nut, Adrienne Kaeppler, Curator for Oceania Ethnology). Design is cross hatching throughout with heavier black lines painted over the cross hatching, running across the width of the tapa. Other design pattern on this tapa section is divided into rectangles of the previous black design adjacent to rectangles of line drawings (?) in red/brown and black. The two design patterns are separated by a red/brown rectangular section also designed in cross hatching using a design board. This tapa section is made of three pasted pieces in the following lengths: 97 cm, 215 cm, and 608 cm. The other pasted on section of tapa has a light "natural" beige background with a black cross hatching pattern throughout with black lines running along the length of the tapa. The end of the design on this tapa section is a red/brown cross hatch design. The gray toned tapa section has a straight cut terminal end while the beige toned tapa section has a finished terminal end.
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue identifies # 1435 - 1456 as "Ngatu." Bark cloth prepared for curtains by the natives of the Fiji Islands."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Jul 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fiji, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Fijian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3270-1
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 1050 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 82 cm