Barkcloth
date: label: Accession Date
content: 19 Jan 2005
label: Collection Date
content: 1908
name: label: Collector
content: Isadore Eismen
label: Donor Name
content: Rose Boyarsky
label: Expedition
content: Great White Fleet
notes: label: Notes
content: Rectangular barkcloth. Natural color, painted with darker brown pigment. Center has round flower motif, surrounded by radiating triangles. Each corner has leaves and a sunflower. Hilary Scothorn, a student of Adriene Kaeppler (curator, Oceania Ethnology) who studies Samoan barkcloth, says this piece is "certainly a tablecloth for outside sale". She also notes that although the leaf motif is a common early design, the central round motif, the sunflowers, and the black lined edges are very rare.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 24 Oct 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: American Samoa, United States, 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: 2032770
label: USNM Number
content: E430817-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth
physicalDescription: label: Width - Object
content: 134 cm
label: Length - Object
content: ca 185 cm