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: "INVENTORIED 1975."
label: Notes
content: White, watermarked, with surface of beater having 14 parallel ridges. Tiny black (mold?) spots all over.
label: Notes
content: Fragment piece of white bark cloth roughly rectangular in shape. It is plain white with very narrow parallel beater marks and has no other decoration. All edges appear either torn or cut. 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. This fragment could be part of E15083-0.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
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: E15083-1
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 81 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 61.5 cm