Bark Cloth
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: Lt. Augustus L. Case
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: LARGE SHEET OF NATURAL COLOR BARK CLOTH WITH A FINE STRIPED WATERMARK, DEVOID OF ANY OTHER DECORATION. HAS MOST OF AN ORIGINAL PEALE TAG "83-"; ALSO AN ATTACHED TAG READS, "A. LUDLOW CASE NO. 35, VINCENS EXPD." A DETACHED TAG READS, "3610, 832, NATIVE CLOTH - SANDWICH ISLS."
label: Notes
content: Rectangular white, undecorated tapa with parallel beater marks, 20 lines per inch. Tapa was possibly made from breadfruit (uhu), per Adrienne Kaeppler, Curator for Oceania Ethnology. The feel of the tapa is stiff, not soft. The long edges are finished and one side appears additionally turned over. The two corners and edge near the catalog number were very creased, but appeared to have been intentionally done, as though the corners had been gathered together. Adrienne Kaeppler requested leaving these as indicators of possible previous use.
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: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3610-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 477.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 213 cm