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 FINE SQUARE PIECE OF NATURAL COLORED BARK CLOTH WITH DECORATED BORDERS IN DARK BROWN AND ORANGE FLOWER LIKE DESIGNS. THERE ARE STAMPED PATTERNS OF DOTS COVERING THE REST OF THE PIECE. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. THIS OBJECT WAS ON PERMANENT EXHIBIT IN NMNH PACIFIC CULTURES EXHIBIT HALL 8, CASE 8, FROM 1962 TILL IT WAS REMOVED FROM PERMANENT EXHIBITION & EXHIBITED IN "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS," NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "PEALE CATALOG: "838 TO 846. 'TAPA,' CLOTH MADE OF BARK; PRINTED AND COLORED IN IMITATION OF FOREIGN PATTERNS BY NATIVES OF KAUAI, HAWAIIAN ISLANDS." FROM CARD: "3483-89. "3485-ORIG. 842."
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue for numbers 838 to 846 identifies them as "Tapa," cloth made of bark; printed and colored in imitation of foreign patterns by natives of Kauai, Hawaiian Islands."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kauai (Kauaʻi) Island, 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: E3485-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 68.6 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 65.5 cm