Bark Cloth, Painted
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: Peale catalogue identifies # 1435 - 1456 as "Ngatu." Bark cloth prepared for curtains by the natives of the Fiji Islands."
label: Notes
content: Large rectangular thin tapa of medium texture made from 8 pieces of rectangularly shaped smaller pieces of tapa, presumably adhered together with arrow root, per Adrienne Kaeppler, Curator for Oceania Ethnology. This piecing is visible on the back side. The adhered pieces are of varying dimensions. The design on the top side was made with stencils and is elaborate, with flared borders on two sides with the other two having finished edges. Additional color was added to the bold wide lines. The red brown is very visible in these areas on the underside. There is a red glaze visible in the middle of these lines.
label: Notes
content: Has original Peale # label.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Jul 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fiji, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Fijian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E4383-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 311.2 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 257 cm