Tapa Cloth Pattern ('Upeti)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1875
label: Collection Date
content: 1874
name: label: Collector
content: Col. Albert B. Steinberger
label: Donor Name
content: Col. Albert B. Steinberger
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ORIGINAL CATALOG CALLED IT "MATTING". K.P. EMORY... RENAMED IT [tapa cloth 'upeti]."
label: Notes
content: Pandanus-leaf 'upeti (tapa/siapo design or pattern board). Illus. Fig. 2, p. 203 in Kaeppler, Adrienne L. Animal designs on Samoan siapo and other thoughts on West Polynesian barkcloth designs. Journal of the Polynesian Society 114 (3):197-226. 2005
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
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: 003313
label: USNM Number
content: E13737-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth Printer