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: Catalogued as just Polynesian; attributed/stored as Hawaiian.
label: Notes
content: Rectangular piece of thinly beaten bark cloth that is light brown in color, has a finely beaten watermark, and is decorated on the top surface with black stamped designs. Both of the short sides have black stamped border designs but each is different. The long sides and center line have the same angled dot pattern in black running the length. The rest of the body of the bark cloth has a short double parallel line motif that is fairly regularly spaced on the diagonal throughout the top surface, also in black. All edges appear to be finished.
label: Notes
content: NMNH Curator of Oceania, Adrienne Kaeppler confirms the tapa is Hawaiian. (September 2013).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Jul 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Hawaii (Hawaiʻi), United States, 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: E15086-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 386 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 105.4 cm