Tapa W/ Hala Paini Design
date: label: Accession Date
content: 19 Dec 1997
label: Collection Date
content: August 14, 1964
name: label: Collector
content: Harold A. Rehder
label: Donor Name
content: Harold A. Rehder
notes: label: Notes
content: BARKCLOTH PRINTED W/ THE HALA PAINI STENCIL DESIGN SET. "HALA" (STREET) "PAINI" (PINE) MEANS ROAD OF PINES, A METAPHOR FOR THE MONARCHY. THIS REFERS TO THE PINE TREES THAT LINE THE PALACE & THE ADJOINING VILLAGE GREEN ON THE OCEAN SIDE, & ALONG THE STREET CALLED HALA TU'I THAT EXTENDS FROM THE PALACE TO THE ROYAL TOMBS. THE TREES ARE EMBELLISHED W/ A SUN, A MOON, & A STAR -- CELESTIAL PHENOMENON SYMBOLIZING THE MONARCH. SEE ARTICLE BY DR. ADRIENNE KAEPPLER, CURATOR OF OCEANIA ETHNOLOGY, NMNH, "POETICS AND POLITICS OF TONGAN BARKCLOTH" IN PACIFIC MATERIAL CULTURE, SMIDT, DIRK A.M. ET AL, EDS. RIJKSMUSEUM VOOR VOLKENKUNDE, LEIDEN 1995. ACCORDING TO MR. REHDER, THE CLOTH WAS THROWN OVER HIM DURING A DANCE AT A PRIVATE FAREWELL PARTY FOR LARRY LANCASTER, SCIENCE MASTER AT TONGA COLLEGE. PARTY WAS GIVEN BY LAVINIA, LANCASTER'S COOK & HOUSEKEEPER, AT VAINI VILLAGE, ON AUGUST 14, 1964.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Vaini, Tongatapu Island, Tongatapu Group, Tonga, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tongan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 416131
label: USNM Number
content: E428118-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 395 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 252 cm