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: PIECE OF COARSE BROWN BARK CLOTH WHICH IS DECORATED WITH DARKER BROWN OR BLACK LINES IN VARYING WIDTHS. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. EXAMINED AND SAMPLED BY KENNETH P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, JUNE 1941, WHO IDENTIFIED THIS AS A "KAPA MALO" [MAN'S LOINCLOTH]. THIS OBJECT WAS ON PERMANENT EXHIBIT IN NMNH PACIFIC CULTURES EXHIBIT HALL 8, CASE 9, FROM 1962 - 2005.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "CAT. 3491, ORIG. 830. TAPA MALO. SAMPLE TAKEN BY K. P. EMORY, 6/24/41."
label: Notes
content: Small rectangular tapa cloth. The background color is a light reddish brown with a design composed of regularly spaced dark red/brown stripes accompanied by groupings of seven narrow stripes of the same color. Within the red/brown stripes are darker narrow stripes. Parallel to these lines are very narrow beater marks along the entire cloth.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
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: E3491-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 186 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 40.5 cm