Piece Of Tapa
date: label: Accession Date
content: 26 Oct 1874
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: Major William Rich
label: Collector
content: United States Exploring Expedition
label: Donor Name
content: Prof Spencer F. Baird
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "15083 IS HAWAIIAN. INVENTORIED 1975."
label: Notes
content: White, watermarked, with surface of beater having 14 parallel ridges. Tiny black (mold?) spots all over.
label: Notes
content: Dr. Adrienne Kaeppler thinks this may be of Tahitian manufacture.
label: Notes
content: The bark cloth consists of two fragments: # 1 of 2 is 26 inches L x 20.5 inches W and # 2 of 2 is 91 inches L x 30 inches W. Both are plain white with very narrow parallel beater marks and have no other decoration. Fragment # 1 of 2 is roughly rectangular in shape. It has one finished edge, two torn edges adn one cut edge. Fragment # 2 of 2 has one finished edge and 3 cut edges. The fragments are grayed overall by ingrained dirt. In addition both have areas of brown smudges and notable black mildew spot staining. Neither have any tears or holes. Both have some surface crinkling possibly from past folding. These two fragments could be assocated with another similar fragment # E15083-1. Dr. Adrienne Kaeppler, Curator for Oceania Ethnology, examined the bark cloth 9-11-2013 and said that it has the hallmarks of Tahitian manufacture because of its color and very fine parallel beater marks.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Tahiti (not certain), Hawaii (Hawaiʻi) (not certain) / Society Islands (not certain), United States (not certain) / France (not certain), Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 74A00057
label: USNM Number
content: E15083-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - #1 Of 2
content: 66 cm
label: Width - #1 Of 2
content: 52.1 cm
label: Length - #2 Of 2
content: 231 cm
label: Width - #2 Of 2
content: 76 cm