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 SINGLE SHEET OF "MAMAKI" BARK CLOTH WITH A FINE PARALLEL LINED WATERMARK. SOME PORTIONS OF THE PIECE APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN BURNED. THE GENERAL CONDITION IS GOOD, PLIABLE AND STRONG. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. EXAMINED AND SAMPLED BY KENNETH P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, JUNE 1941.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "3600-10. CAT. 3600, ORIG. 815. TAPA, LARGE SHEET MAMAKE TAPA, HILO, HAWAII. NARROW PARALLEL WATER MARK. ALL INFORMATION GIVEN BY K.P. EMORY, 6/24/41."
label: Notes
content: Though U.S. Exploring Expedition records identify this as collected in Hawaii, Dr. Adrienne Kaeppler, Curator for Oceania Ethnology, thinks it may be of Tahitian manufacture.
label: Notes
content: Very thin beaten rectangular tapa of a golden brown color. It is finely beaten with parallel beater marks visible over the entire surface. No joins are visible and the surface has a very even distribution of fibers. There is a 6 cm crescent shaped burn loss located 66 cm up from the corner along one edge with smaller associated losses as well as additional losses along the same side.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Jul 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Hawaii (Hawaiʻi), United States, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hawaiian (Kanaka ʻŌiwi, Kanaka Maoli)
label: Culture
content: Tahitian (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3600-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 270 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 195 cm