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: "15090-8. INVENTORIED 1975."
label: Notes
content: 15090 - 15098 originally catalogued as just Polynesian. An unknown person pencilled in Hawaii? at a later date.
label: Notes
content: Rectangular piece of coarse bark cloth that is plain with no design elements on either side. It does not appear to be made out of paper mulberry based on its coarse and stiff texture. It is assumed to be made out of breadfruit based on curator Adrienne Kaeppler's identification of other similarly appearing bark cloths. A beater mark is visible: parallel lines with occasional areas of cross-hatching lines. The widthwise edges both appear to be scissor cut and the lengthwise edges appear to be finished. Because of this suspect this piece was cut from a larger piece of bark cloth.
label: Notes
content: Dr. Adrienne Kaeppler, Curator for Oceania Ethnology, thinks this may be of Tahitian manufacture.
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
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 74A00057
label: USNM Number
content: E15098-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 178 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 142 cm