Bark Cloth
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: VERY LARGE BROWN TAPA WITH A FINE STRIPED WATERMARK THROUGHOUT. THE PIECE IS DECORATED WITH A DARKER BROWN NET DESIGN. THE DESIGN WAS MOST LIKELY MADE BY PRESSING THE BARK CLOTH AGAINST A NET MADE OF COCONUT FIBER CORD WHICH WAS KNOTTED AT 1.5 CM. INTERVALS. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG # 1015. THIS BARK CLOTH WAS FORMERLY ERRONEOUSLY CATALOGUED AS #3450 OR 3450B. S.I. #3450 IS ASSOCIATED WITH ORIGINAL/PEALE #1055. THIS BARK CLOTH HAS BEEN ARBITRARILY ASSIGNED THE CATALOGUE NUMBER OF 2952 SINCE THIS NUMBER IS MISSING INVENTORY DATA. CARD DATA FROM OLD CARDS FOR 3450 AND 3450B DESCRIBES PEALE # 1015 AS: "TAPA SHEET, 12'4" X 16'. HAWAII? ORIG. PEALE CAT.: "993-1054...SAMOAN IS.", BUT MANY OF THESE NOT SAMOAN. SAMPLE TAKEN BY K. P. EMORY, 6/24/41." AND "SIZE 12'10" L., 6' W.. THOUGH THERE APPEAR TO BE SEVERAL PIECES [NUMBERED 3450], THIS VERY LARGE ONE SOLID MEDIUM BROWN BACK & FRONT, WITH AN ALL OVER DESIGN OF CONTINUOUS BLACK LINE DIAMONDS ( 1 1/4" L.) WITH A ROUND DOT EXPANSION AT EACH OF THE LINE INTERSECTIONS. THIS WAS ORIGINALLY MARKED FIJI BUT [SAUL] RIESENBERG CONSIDERS IT HAWAIIAN. IT ALSO ONCE HAD A "MARSHALLS" TAG."
label: Notes
content: This object is stored rolled.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 5 Apr 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Hawaii (Hawaiʻi) (not certain), United States (not certain), Polynesia (not certain)
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: E2952-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 538 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 391.5 cm