Bark Cloth
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: THIS OBJECT HAD BEEN CATALOGUED AS T-9347, AND WAS IDENTIFIED AS AN EXPLORING EXPEDITION PIECE BY THE PRESENCE OF ITS ORIGINAL PEALE NUMBER LABEL 1438. IT HAS BEEN ARBITRARILY ASSIGNED THIS CATALOGUE NUMBER SINCE IT WAS MISSING INVENTORY DATA.
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: Long, narrow, black and red decorated bark cloth. The decoration consists of mainly black lines, both narrow and broad. The broad black lines are grouped in fives. The sections of stripes are divided by lines of reddish brown. The borders are reddish brown and one end has a dentate fringe. The other end has been cut.
label: Notes
content: This object is stored rolled.
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: E5104-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 1469 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 68.5 cm