Bark Cloth
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: Titian R. Peale
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: LARGE NEARLY SQUARE TAPA WITH BLACK AND WHITE CHECKED DESIGNS SET OFF INTO LARGER SQUARES WITH BLACK BORDERS ON TWO SIDES AND WHITE BORDERS ON THE OTHER. THE REVERSE IS A REDDISH-BROWN COLOR. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG; ALSO A TAG READS, "HORNE ISLAND ID LAT: 14S LONG 17 87S PURCHASED FROM.... T.R. PEALE MUTHUATHA AUG 2, 1840". EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "3439-51. LOCALITY *SAMOAN ISLANDS. *LOCALITY FOR 3451 INSCRIBED ON SPECIMEN ERRONEOUS--ASCRIBED TO FIJI; "FIJI" ERADICATED/MARTHA COOPER." FROM SECOND CARD: "FUTUNA, HORNE ISLANDS. SMALL BLACK AND WHITE CHECKED DESIGNS, SET OFF INTO LARGER SQUARES."
label: Notes
content: The yellow stains (possibly turmeric?) which appear on the back side seem to have been rubbed into the tapa purposely.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Jul 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Muthuata (Macuata-i-wai) Island (collected here) / Wallis and Futuna, Fiji / France, Melanesia / Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Futunan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3451-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 270 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 235 cm