Cotton Cloth
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Joseph P. Couthouy
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: This piece is a loom-width fabric sample (has two selvages and two cut sides) with a square cut out of one corner. Off-white twill handwoven fabric, with single-ply handspun cotton threads.
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue identifies # 851 - 858 as "Cotton wool, yarn, and cloth; raised, spun and woven by native Hawaiians, under the direction of the American Missions." Anthropology catalogue ledger book indicates them as from the Seminary at Maui.
label: Notes
content: This, like other objects collected by Couthouy, may have been woven at the Wailuku Female Seminary for Hawaiian Girls, run by the Reverend Jonathan Smith Green and his wife Theodosia starting in 1837, and located in Wailuku, Maui. Edward Bailey and his wife Caroline later took over the running of the Wailuku Female Seminary.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 May 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Wailuku (not certain), Maui Island (not certain), 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: E3499-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 31 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 84 cm