Tapa
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: FROM CARD: "ORNAMENTED WITH BLACK BANDS PLUS SMALL RED-SQUARES BORDER, FINE FRINGE ALONG TWO SIDES, DENTATED AT ENDS. (THIS INFORMATION GIVEN BY K. P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, 6/24/41.) MR. EMORY ALSO TOOK VERY SMALL SAMPLE."
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: Made from several overlapping sheets. Background is natural color. Decoration consists of horizontally and vertically arranged bands of reddish-brown color and areas painted in black. Both long sides are fringed. Edges of short sides terminate with cut-out elongated triangles.
label: Notes
content: This object is stored rolled.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
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: E3270-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 351 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 126 cm