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: Large rectangular piece of bark cloth which may have been a curtain. It is covered with stencilled decoration and has two painted black borders. The design is divided into four sections which have chevron like designs within sections. The colors are red and black over white bark cloth. Has original Peale tag, and old tag which reads "native cloth "ngatu" a thick glazed sort, used chiefly for curtains"; a second tag reads "W.1454 Fiji Islands W.C. McClintock." W. C. McClintock is not on the list of officers and men of the Expedition; the name may belong to someone who presented the piece to Expedition members. Examined and sampled by Kenneth P. Emory, Bishop Museum, June 1941.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "THIN, GAUZE LIKE. DESIGN IN RED AND BLACK. ON LABEL: W. C. MCCLINTOCK. ON PRINTED LABEL: "NATIVE CLOTH", (NGATU). ORIG. [Peale] CAT.: "'NGATU' BARK CLOTH PREPARED FOR MAKING CURTAINS BY THE NATIVES OF THE FIJI ISLANDS." NOS. 4388-4402 (15). THIS INFORMATION GIVEN BY K. P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM. MR. EMORY ALSO TOOK 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: Note that there is a W. C. McClintock listed as the collector of a number of artifacts from Guyana in the Anthropology collections, some of them with catalogue numbers in the 4000 range. It is possible that McClintock's name might have been placed on the tag with E4396 in error.
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: E4396-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 449 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 360 cm