Bark Cloth
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: ORIGINAL/PEALE # 1055. LARGE, LIGHT TAN BARK CLOTH WITH PAINTED DESIGNS OF THREE STYLIZED LIZARDS EXTENDING OVER THE ENTIRE LENGTH OF THE CLOTH. THE SPACES BETWEEN THE LIZARDS AND THE BORDERS AT BOTH ENDS ARE COVERED WITH LINEAR & TRIANGULAR DESIGN ELEMENTS IN BLACK AND DARK BROWN. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. PUBLICATION: USNM ANNUAL REPORT, 1932, DESIGN AREAS IN OCEANIA, PL. 7, H.W. KRIEGER. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.
label: Notes
content: From card: "3439-51. Cat. 3450, orig. 1015 [note: orig. # 1015 has been changed to catalogue # E2529]. Tapa sheet, 12'4" x 16'. Hawaii? Orig. Peale cat.: "993-1054...Samoan is.", but many of these not Samoan. Sample taken by k. P. Emory, 6/24/41." From card [for 3450]: "Design entirely in black. Photo shows entire length and more than half of width. Figured by H. W. Krieger, design areas in Oceania, pl.7, 1932. (this information given by K.P. Emory, Bishop Museum, 6/24/41, who also took very small sample. Original tag called this; "Take miole tapa". This has been considered very fine."
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue entry under # 1055: "Mosquito or bed curtain, on which is represented by painting, a large species of reptile formerly held sacred, and now dreaded by the natives of Upolu, one of the Samoan Islands."
label: Notes
content: Though U.S. Exploring Expedition records indicate this tapa was collected in Samoa, Dr. Adrienne Kaeppler, Curator for Oceania Ethnology, thinks it was manufactured in the Cook Islands or Austral Islands.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Apr 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Rarotonga (not certain), Samoa (Western Samoa) / Cook Islands (not certain), Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Samoan (?)
label: Culture
content: Cook Islander (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3450-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 415 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 192 cm