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: RECTANGULAR PIECE OF VERY THIN AND LIGHT BROWN, WATERMARKED BARK CLOTH WHICH IS ALMOST ENTIRELY COVERED WITH FIGURES AND DECORATIVE PATTERNS IN VARIOUS SHADES OF BROWN. THERE IS A DOUBLE BORDER MARKED WITH LINES AND DOTS. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. POSSIBLY COLLECTED BY JOSEPH PITTY COUTHOUY, SINCE HIS NAME IS LISTED IN CONNECTION WITH "EUROPEAN STYLE" BARK CLOTH ON THE SHIPPING LISTS. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURALHISTORY, 1985-86. EXHIBITED SITES "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS," 1987-89.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "3483-89. PRINTED IN FIGURES, IMITATING EUROPEAN GOODS."
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue for numbers 838 to 846 identifies them as "Tapa," cloth made of bark; printed and colored in imitation of foreign patterns by natives of Kauai, Hawaiian Islands."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kauai (Kauaʻi) Island, 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: E3483-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 70 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 69 cm