Bark Cloth, Colored
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: FROM CARD: "BLACK BORDER UPETI CENTER. FRINGED ALONG EACH 14' BORDER, SLANTING FRINGE, 1/4" STRIPS. BLACK STRIP, 25.5". FRINGE STRIP, ABOUT 3". THIS INFORMATION GIVEN BY K. P. EMORY, 6/24/41. MR. EMORY ALSO TOOK VERY SMALL SAMPLE."
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue identifies # 1435 - 1456 as "Ngatu." Bark cloth prepared for curtains by the natives of the Fiji Islands."
label: Notes
content: Large rectangular thin tapa of medium texture made from at least 12 pieces of rectangular shaped smaller pieces of tapa, presumably adhered together with arrow root, per Adrienne Kaeppler, Curator for Oceania Ethnology. This piecing is visible on the back side. The adhered pieces are of varying dimensions. There are three small rectangles of plain barkcloth adhered to the back. These do not appear to be repairs but may be reinforcements. The tapa is almost completely covered with applied designs on the front. The large central design is a light brown fine linear pattern of parallel dots in various configurations probably applied with a pattern board. This design has a more Samoan influence? Narrow dark shiny applied lines define the central design into large rectangles. Additional design elements include dark brown circles and triangles. The wide decorative borders on the short sides have fine linear patterns in black and dark red in at least eight stenciled designs. These are more Fijian in design. There is cut fringe along the short sides cut at an angle. The fringe is black and red brown in color.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
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: E4401-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth
physicalDescription: label: Unknown - Border
content: 36 cm
label: Unknown - Strips
content: 0.64 cm
label: Unknown - Black Strip
content: 64.8 cm
label: Unknown - Fringe Strip
content: ca. 8 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 475 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 221 cm