Bark Cloth
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: Lt. Augustus L. Case
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: VERY THIN PIECE OF ORANGE-BROWN, OILED BARK CLOTH WITH A SCALE-LIKE WATERMARK. THERE ARE TWO LARGE PIECES WHICH HAVE BECOME DETACHED FROM THIS RATHER BRITTLE PIECE. A TAG READS, "A. LUDLOW CASE, NO. 35, VINCENNES EXPD." EXAMINED AND SAMPLED BY KENNETH P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, JUNE 1941.
label: Notes
content: Dye possibly noni root? (reddish gold faded to brownish gold).
label: Notes
content: Tapa fragment ET24251-0 joins/fits with tapa # E3607-0, and so the T number has been cancelled and the fragment has been added to that catalogue number.
label: Notes
content: Per Erhardt, W. D. and N. Firnhaber. "Analysis and Identification of Oils in Hawaiian Oiled Tapa." In Recent Advances in the Conservation and Analysis of Artifacts. Ed: James Black, London: University of London, Summer School Press, 1987, pp. 223 - 227, the oils on this tapa were most likely derived from the kukui nut.
label: Notes
content: Thin oiled tapa. It has a bright orange color, which in some parts become bright yellow. It is also a bit transparent, due to the heavy presence of oil. It was apparently coated in oil. Tapa shows a very distinct and specific watermark, scale-like (round-ribbon shape), which is very repetitive and covers the entire tapa. It is a decorative pattern within the sheet of tapa, easily seen even without transmitted light. Tapa does not show any other decorative colored patterns on either side. There is no distinction between the sides in manufacture. It is difficult to see if the edges are original.
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: E3607-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 205 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 85 cm