Tapa Cloth
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 Oct 1881
name: label: Collector
content: George Catlin
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Joseph Harrison Jr.
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Fragmentary piece, brownish red, with red parallel line decoration. Possibly Hawaiian (S.H.R.) [curator Saul H. Riesenberg]."
label: Notes
content: Poor condition, brittle and had been folded for many years. Mysterious thread stitched through 2 layers. Decoration of parallel lines made with comb or line-stamping tool.
label: Notes
content: Presuming George Catlin did indeed collect this tapa, it would date prior to 1852.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Apr 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Hawaii (Hawaiʻi), United States, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Polynesian
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 010638
label: USNM Number
content: E386572-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth