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: TRIANGULAR PIECE OF FINE NATURAL COLORED BARK CLOTH WITH A DOUBLE BORDER OF LINES AND DOTS. THE CENTRAL PORTION IS DECORATED WITH DOTS IN DIFFERENT PATTERNS IN ORANGE-BROWN, AND DARK BROWN. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. THIS HAS BEEN CONSERVED, BUT REMAINS IN FRAGILE CONDITION. THERE IS A TAG WHICH READS, "3486 SANDWICH ISL.". EXAMINED AND SAMPLED BY KENNETH P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, JUNE 1941.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "TAPA, KAUAI, HAWAII. WILKES EXPED. 1839-41. THIS INFORMATION GIVEN BY K. P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, 6/24/41." FROM CARD: "3483-89. PRINTED IN FIGURES, IMITATING EUROPEAN GOODS. 3486 - ORIG. 843."
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: 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: E3486-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth
physicalDescription: label: Width - Object
content: 93 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 47.5 cm