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: FRAGMENT OF REDDISH BARK CLOTH WITH REDDISH-BROWN DIAGONAL STRIPED DECORATION. HAS VERY RAGGED EDGES AND IS OBVIOUSLY ONLY A FRAGMENT OF A LARGER PIECE. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. THIS CATALOGUE NUMBER APPEARS TWICE ON PIECE, IN WHITE AND BLACK. A TAG ATTACHED READS, "3490 NATIVE CLOTH SANDWICH ISLANDS". EXAMINED AND SAMPLED BY KENNETH P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, JUNE 1941.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "MR. K. P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, TOOK SMALL SAMPLE 6/24/41."
label: Notes
content: Per Erhardt, W. D. and N. Firnhaber. "Analysis and Identification of Oils in Hawaiian Oiled Tapa." In Recent Advances in the Conservation and Analysis of Artifacts. Ed: James Black, London: University of London, Summer School Press, 1987, pp. 223 - 227, the oils on this tapa were most likely derived from the kukui nut.
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: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3490-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 80.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 39 cm