Bark Cloth Turban
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: Turban consists of a rectangular piece of loosely beaten bark cloth that is natural in color with no pigments or decoration. Very fibrous structure and has aged to a mottled light yellow color overall. One short end has a serrated edge, one long edge has both long and short fringes, the other long edge has only long a irregularly spaced fringes adn the other short end tapers to a very gauzy structure (about one quarter of the overall length.) Has original Peale number. Found folded in storage much like a bolt of fabric. Body of bark cloth has many holes, most of which appear to be the result of the beating process which resulted in an openwork fibrous structure and these holes are not considered to be damage. There is notable evidence of ethnographic folding, appearing as closely spaced and regular fold lines running widthwise across the bark cloth. The gauzy section of the bark cloth is very compromised, torn and with large missing areas.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 27 Mar 2017
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: E3422-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Turban
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 165 cm
label: Width - Object, Excluding The Fringe
content: 61 cm