Bark-Cloth "Siapo"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 15 Jul 1991
label: Collection Date
content: 1922
name: label: Collector
content: Not Given
label: Donor Name
content: Charleston Museum
notes: label: Notes
content: MANUFACTURING PROCESS: STRIPS OF BARK BEATEN INTO SHEETS OF THIN CLOTH; HOLES REPAIRED WITH PIECES OF BARK CLOTH GLUED IN PLACE; SHEETS GLUED TOGETHER IN TWO LAYERS OF THICKNESS, AND TWO LAYER SHEETS GLUED TOGETHER SIDE BY SIDE TO FORM LONGER SQUARE SHEET, DECORATION: CONTINUOUS REPEAT PATTERNS IN REDDISH-BROWN MADE BY RUBBING ON DESIGN TABLET, AND HAND-PAINTED LINES AND CIRCLES IN DARK BROWN, ON NATURAL ECRU BACKGROUND. CHARLESTON MUSEUM LIST IDENTIFIES AS SAMOAN. NO CHARLESTON MUSEUM OR SMITHSONIAN NUMBERS IDENTIFIED. REFERENCES: TAPA IN POLYNESIA BY SIMON KOOIJMAN, BISHOP MUSEUM BULLETIN 234, 1972.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: American Samoa (not certain), Samoa (not certain) / United States (not certain), Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Samoan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 387023
label: USNM Number
content: E425677-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 93 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 89 cm