Bark Cloth
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: George W. Hammersly
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: FIVE LAYER BARK CLOTH SKIRT SEWN TOGETHER ALONG ONE SIDE WITH BARK CLOTH THREAD AND HIDDEN UNDER A FOLDED HEM. THREE OF THE LAYERS ARE UNDECORATED VERY THIN WATERMARKED CLOTH, AND THE OUTERMOST SHEET HAS DECORATIONS IN BLACK AND THE SECOND SHEET HAS DESIGNS IN ORANGE AND BROWN. ACCORDING TO THE OLD CATALOGUE CARD THE PIECE HAD AN OLD LABEL TIED ON, "HURA HURA DRESS - SANDWICH ISL. G.W. HAMMERSLY, EX. EX. V[INCENNES] NO. 4". THIS PEALE NUMBER HAS BEEN ARBITRARILY ASSIGNED TO THIS CATALOGUE NUMBER FOR PURPOSES OF IDENTIFICATION.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "VERY THIN TAPA. ONE OUTSIDE SHEET HAS BLACK DESIGN. FIVE SHEETS ALTOGETHER. (THIS INFORMATION GIVEN BY K. P. EMORY, 6/24/41. MR. EMORY ALSO TOOK SAMPLE OF THIS TAPA). INVENTORIED 1975."
label: Notes
content: Five layer tapa skirt. Each sheet is very thin with similar watermark on each. Top and bottom sheets are both decorated; the middle three are not. One sheet is decorated with a red and black leaf pattern drawn on and additional parallel decorative lines, also in red and black, applied with a stamp technique. the other decorated sheet had the design only in black, with similar parallel lines and small groupings of parallel lines with dots inside. The folded side is bound with a strip of tapa. In 2013, an additional piece measuring approx. 34 cm x 13 cm was joined to this object. Fragment came to museum as a result of a series of conversations between Adrienne Kaeppler, Curator for Oceania Ethnology at the NMNH and Betty Kam of the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI, when it was determined that the Bishop Museum had in their collections a fragment of tapa which had been removed from this object at an unknown earlier date.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: 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: E3533-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 281 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 74 cm