Folder of botanical specimens and barkcloth samples
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 Feb 2017
name: label: Collector
content: Jean T. Chapman-Mason
label: Donor Name
content: Jean T. Chapman-Mason
notes: label: Notes
content: Blue plastic binder, filled with botanical and tapa samples from the Cook Islands: Sample tapa from Atiu. 5 strips of white tapa, called Mati (dyefig, ficus tinctoria) 'anga (tapa). "[Made?] by Rima Kura of Tengatangi" Sample tapa from Atiu. 1 strip of tapa from the Banyan, or Ava, made by Rima Kura of Tengatangi. Dark brown. Sample leaves from Mauke. 6 leaves Ava banyan. Sample leaf from Rarotonga, Arorangi. Kuru or breadfruit leaf from back road in Arorangi. Sample leaf from Rarotonga, Nikao. Kuru or breadfruit leaf from Nikao, back road. Sample leaves from Mauke. 6 leaves Mati Sample leaf from Rarotonga. Aute, paper mulberry leaf from a tree at the University of Southern Pacific campus Sample leaf from Rarotonga. Aute, or paper mulberry leaf from a tree at the Cook Island Library and Museum Sample tapa from Tonga. Off white piece of layered tapa, 12" x 8" (widest) and 6.125 (narrowest). Donor: "One strip of Tongan tapa (used as packing) which is over 10 years old (came from NZ last year) [in 2013]" Unlabeled. Sample leaf from Rarotonga. Musa troglodytarum. Ve'i or 'utu, or mountain banana. "Outer cover of trunk. Rarely used now to make patterns in mats" "These mats were called paenono" Sample dye from Mauke. Envelope of pitorea. Stalks, leaves, etc., are boiled to obtain black dye for tapa. Grows in taro swamps Sample leaf from Mauke. Maire rakau, alyxia stellata, from the periwinkle family (apocynaceae)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 May 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 26
place: label: Place
content: Cook Islands, 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: 2069807
label: USNM Number
content: E433875-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Botanical