Tapa Quilt
name: label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. E W. Estep
notes: label: Notes
content: On July 12, 1909, Mrs. E.W. Estep of Casey, IL loaned a tapa cloth, a stone figure, a poi pestle and a kukui lamp. In her accompanying memo, Mrs. Estep writes that the tapa was "built […] by a Hawaiian woman who had possessed [?] it from the old times."
label: Notes
content: From card: "In 4 folds - fastened together at one long side. Made from the bark of a mulberry tree. In ancient times this was the only cloth the Hawaiians had, and from it they made all their clothing, bedding, sails for canoes, etc.. This specimen is handed down from old times. Now its manufacture is almost a lost art. The coloring matter with which the first sheet is colored was obtained from the inside of a certain fish. It is in alternate stripes of pink and mottled pink running long way. Color does not show through on back."
label: Notes
content: Four layers, sewn together with cotton thread. Top layer has red fibers beaten in, and 5 (?) bands of splotchy black pounded in. Black may be pieces of older tapa beaten in? to make stripes. Three white layers below top red layer.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
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)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 050331
label: USNM Number
content: E255724-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth