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: LARGE PIECE OF UNDECORATED WHITE BARK CLOTH. THE CLOTH IS FAIRLY COARSE, AND HAS A WIDE PARALLEL LINE WATERMARK. THE TEXTURE IS UNLIKE MOST OF THE SAMOAN TAPA LOOKED AT. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG NUMBER 1043. THIS OBJECT WAS FORMERLY (MIS)NUMBERED 2965, AND WHILE UNDER THAT NUMBER WAS IDENTIFIED BY RALPH LINTON AS MARQUESAN 2/21/1945, RATHER THAN SAMOAN AS ORIGINALLY CATALOGUED. THE CATALOGUE NUMBER HAS BEEN CHANGED BACK TO 2985, AS THE REAL # 2965 WAS EXCHANGED WITH THE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES IN 1867 AND WAS APPARENTLY DESTROYED IN THE CHICAGO FIRE OF 1871.
label: Notes
content: Tapa is an uneven rectangular shape with a uniformly beaten off white surface that appears undyed. The beater marks are fine parallel lines primarily in one direction approximately 0.1 cm apart. The surface has a slightly stiff papery feel. There are no visible joins. The edges appear cut. There are natural undulations in the surface. Tapa was originally folded into a rectangular bolt approximately 28 cm x 51 cm. Catalogue number is written in black ink in this area, and original Peale # label "1043" is adhered to the surface. There is a 16 cm long narrow deliberate cut/loss likely for sampling in one corner. There is a small rectangular cut for sampling in the opposite corner along the width. There are large water? stains approximately 25 cm in diameter with dark tidelines repeated across the surface indicating the tapa was stained when it was folded.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Jul 2015
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Marquesas Islands (not certain), France, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Marquesan (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E2985-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 290 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 211 cm