Barkcloth
date: label: Accession Date
content: 3 Aug 2007
label: Collection Date
content: 1985 to 1987
name: label: Collector
content: Steven Zirkel
label: Donor Name
content: Steven Zirkel
notes: label: Notes
content: Large sheet of barkcloth. Main section is painted medium brown, and over-painted with darker brown lines. Bands of geometric patterns. Two narrow bands of text near the center with the name of the design. Lighter color border at both ends.
label: Notes
content: Adrienne Kaeppler, curator of Oceania Ethnology, describes this as "an excellent example of the Tongan aesthetic with precise overpainting and straight lines, as well as with the printed name of the design, 'Koe sisi maile of Tupouleva' [which means] 'the flower girdle of Tupouleva'".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Jun 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Sopu, Tongatapu Island, Tongatapu Group, Tonga, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tongan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2043861
label: USNM Number
content: E432077-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 400 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 197.5 cm