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: BARK CLOTH PAINTED FREEHAND IN FOUR BLACK PANELS WHICH ARE OUTLINED WITH WIDE REDDISH-BROWN LINES, AND BORDERED ON TWO SIDES WITH A WIDE REDDISH-BROWN PANEL. THE REVERSE SHOWS A CROSS-HATCH WATERMARK. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG; ALSO OLD SHIPPING LABEL READS, "B[ARRE]L. NO 3 TAPA FROM SAMOA NOV 1839". EXAMINED BY KENNETH P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, JUNE 1941.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "CAT. 2950, ORIG. 1016. TAPA, 3' X 4'10". GLOSSY. "BL. NO. 3, TAPA FROM SAMOA, NOV. 1839". 4 BLACK PANELS. (THIS INFORMATION GIVEN BY K. P. EMORY, 6/24/41, BISHOP MUSEUM, WHO ALSO TOOK SAMPLE."
label: Notes
content: Tapa pieces E2950 and E3432 appear to be from the same piece. - Greta Hansen and Adrienne Kaeppler, Curator for Oceania Ethnology, 7-22-2013.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
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
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E2950-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 154 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 108 cm