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: SINGLE SHEET OF FINELY BEATEN, THIN, MUSTARD TAN COLORED BARK CLOTH WITH A RIBBED WATERMARK. IT IS THE APPROXIMATE SIZE OF A TAPA MALO. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "3483-89. CAT.3489 ORIG. 828 TAPA, SMALL SHEET OF SOFT BROWN MAMAKE TAPA, PARALLEL WATER MARK. HAWAII. SAMPLE TAKEN BY K. P. EMORY, 6/24/41." FROM SECOND CARD: "PIECE OF LIGHT BROWN TAPA."
label: Notes
content: Narrow rectangular bark cloth of light brown color and soft texture. Moana Eisele, a Hawaiian kapa/tapa maker, conserved this piece. She has the comment, "This looks like mamaki with ho'opa'i finish." One long edge is a finished edge; the other appears to be a scissor cut edge. A two inch rectangle has been cut out from one edge, apparently by Kenneth P. Emory in 1941. A beater mark of narrow parallel lines is visible. Many areas of lighter strands of fiber appear randomly throughout the piece.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Jul 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Hawaii (Hawaiʻi), United States, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hawaiian (Kanaka ʻŌiwi, Kanaka Maoli)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3489-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 182 cm
label: Minimum Width - Object
content: 32 cm
label: Maximum Width - Object
content: 45 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 180 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 46 cm