Cotton Cloth
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Joseph P. Couthouy
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: SMALL PIECE OF COTTON, HOME SPUN CLOTH IN A CHECKED PATTERN OF CREAM AND LIGHT BROWN COLOR. THERE IS A REDDISH-ORANGE PIECE OF WAX ON THE CLOTH - THIS MAY HAVE BEEN USED AT ONE TIME TO ATTACH A LABEL. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE "857"; ALSO OLD PRINTED LABEL ATTACHED READS, "US EXPLORING EXPEDITION, CAPT. C. WILKES, USN, COMMANDER,SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, WASHINGTON CITY, USA, 2 SPECS. NATIVE CLOTH". THE ORIGINAL PEALE NUMBERS 855 AND 857 WERE ORIGINALLY CATALOGUED TOGETHER. THE ORIGINAL PEALE #855 IS MISSING. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "3497-3500. 3497 CONTAINS 2 SPECIMENS; THE OTHERS ONE EACH. (CONSERVATION ON ONE PIECE OF 3,497 THE OTHER NOT AVAILABLE MISSING ?) E.D. 5/3/85."
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue identifies # 851 - 858 as "Cotton wool, yarn, and cloth; raised, spun and woven by native Hawaiians, under the direction of the American Missions." Anthropology catalogue ledger book indicates them as from the Seminary at Maui.
label: Notes
content: This, like other objects collected by Couthouy, may have been woven at the Wailuku Female Seminary for Hawaiian Girls, run by the Reverend Jonathan Smith Green and his wife Theodosia starting in 1837, and located in Wailuku, Maui. Edward Bailey and his wife Caroline later took over the running of the Wailuku Female Seminary.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 May 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Wailuku (not certain), Maui Island (not certain), 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: E3497-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 38.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 84 cm