Piece Of Tapa
date: label: Accession Date
content: 26 Oct 1874
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: Major William Rich
label: Collector
content: United States Exploring Expedition
label: Donor Name
content: Prof Spencer F. Baird
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "15090-8. INVENTORIED 1975." FROM CARD: "YELLOW, UNDECORATED, VISIBLE WATER MARKS."
label: Notes
content: 15090 - 15098 originally catalogued as just Polynesian. An unknown person pencilled in Hawaii? at a later date.
label: Notes
content: Rectangular piece of bark cloth made yellow/orange color from oiling (presumably with Kukui nut oil). It has a uniformly applied maka upena pupu watermark. It is otherwise undercorated. In spite of its length no seaming or piecing of pieces is visible. The edges appear to be finished but there is a lot of loss along them.
label: Notes
content: NMNH Curator of Oceania, Adrienne Kaeppler confirms the tapa is Hawaiian. (September 2013).
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
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 74A00057
label: USNM Number
content: E15091-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 356 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 89 cm