Bark Cloth
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: LARGE SHEET OF REDDISH BROWN BARK CLOTH WITH NO PAINTED OR RUBBED-ON DESIGN. IT HAS A VERY COARSE TEXTURE,AND A CLEAR PARALLEL LINED WATER MARK. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG; ALSO "EMIO" IS WRITTEN IN INK ON TAPA IN OLD HANDWRITING; LATER PENCIL WRITING UNDER IT SAYS, "SOCIETY IS." AND UNDERNEATH, LATER WRITING SAYS, "MARQUESAS." EXAMINED AND SAMPLED BY KENNETH P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, JUNE 1941. EMORY THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE HAWAIIAN.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "3423-3431. CAT. 3425, ORIG. 996. TAPA. LARGE SHEET OF HEAVY BROWN, VERY COARSE WATERMARK, NO DESIGN. HAWAIIAN? DOWN AS SAMOAN EVEN IN PEALE'S ORIG. CAT. SAMPLE TAKEN BY K. P. EMORY, 6/24/41.
label: Notes
content: "Emio" may be a version of Eimeo/Aimeo/Aimeho?, which is an older name for Moorea Island in the Society Islands.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Aug 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: American Samoa (not certain), Samoa (not certain) / United States (not certain), Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Samoan (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3425-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 197 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 130 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 145 cm