Bark Cloth, "Malo"
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: FAIRLY HEAVY, RIBBED BARK CLOTH WHICH HAS BEEN PAINTED IN A STRIPED DESIGN OF BROWN, RED AND ORANGE. THERE IS A NATIVE PATCH AND THE "MALO" IS PIECED BY BARK CLOTH CORD STITCHING. THIS PIECE IS IN POOR CONDITION, AND VERY FRAGMENTARY. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. THIS OBJECT WAS ON PERMANENT EXHIBIT IN NMNH PACIFIC CULTURES EXHIBIT HALL 8, CASE 8, FROM 1962 - 1984. OBJECT TAKEN OFF PERMANENT EXHIBIT IN 1984 AND CONSERVED. EXAMINED AND SAMPLED BY KENNETH P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, JUNE 1941. EXHIBIT MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "WHERE JOINED TO PIECE 3' LONG. MALO [MAN'S LOINCLOTH] OF HEAVY TAPA. ALL THIS INFORMATION GIVEN BY K. P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, 6/24/41. MR. EMORY ALSO TOOK A VERY SMALL SAMPLE OF TAPA, 6/24/41. STRIPED DESIGN, THIS IS A FRAGMENTARY PIECE."
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue identifies # 887 as "Mallo" a part of the costume of the native Hawaiians."
label: Notes
content: Long rectangular strip of heavy bark cloth that consists of two pieces that are joined (by stitching) approximately in the center (seam runs perpendicular to the long edges of the bark cloth). The bark cloth has a ribbed texture of varying width and is painted in polychrome stripes on one side of the cloth. Colors: red, brown, yellow, orange, green. Painted stripes and ribbed texture is perpendicular to the long edges of the cloth. The under side is plain/undecorated. One long edge has small holes at regular intervals as if from precioius stitching.
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)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3494-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 242 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 32 cm