Barkcloth (Pa'u) Or (Malo)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 25 Jun 1992
label: Collection Date
content: 1888
name: label: Donor Name
content: National Museum of American History
notes: label: Notes
content: BUFF COLOR, UNDECORATED. PAPER TAG WITH OBJECT: "KAPA FROM HAWAII/FROM THE BARK OF PAPER MULBERRY BROUSSON-ETIA PAPYRIFERA; COLORED WITH TUMERIC, USED FOR CURTAINS, BED COVERS, ETC. PRESENTED BY MR. J.S. EMERSON [Joseph Swift Emerson] OF HONOLULU TO LT. W.E. SAFFORD [William Edwin Safford], USN, IN 1888. EMERSON NO. 595." ACCORDING TO CURATOR OF OCEANIAN ETHNOLOGY, ADRIENNE KAEPPLER, THIS PIECE WAS PROBABLY FOLDED TO USE AS A "PA'U" (WOMAN'S SKIRT) OR "MALO", AN ITEM OF CLOTHING/LOINCLOTH WORN WRAPPED AROUND THE WAIST AND BETWEEN THE LEGS BY MEN.
label: Notes
content: This object is stored rolled.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Hawaii (Hawaiʻi), United States, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hawaiian (Kanaka ʻŌiwi, Kanaka Maoli)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 390913
label: USNM Number
content: E426034-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 333 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 264 cm