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: Very large sheet of barkcloth. Main section is painted a medium brown, and over-painted in darker brown with bands of patterns-- flowers, geometric shapes, triangles. Two lines of text near the center with the name of the design. Lighter color border at both ends, painted with large diagonally-bisected squares.
label: Notes
content: Adrienne Kaeppler, curator of Oceania Ethnology, says that this has "a named design, 'Koe sisi o Tupoutoa' [meaning] the flower girdle of Tupoutoa (the Crown Prince). This was made to honor the last Crown Prince, who is now [in 2006] the King."
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: E432078-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 400 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 181 cm