Barkcloth
date: label: Accession Date
content: 25 Jun 1992
label: Collection Date
content: 1888
name: label: Donor Name
content: National Museum of American History
notes: label: Notes
content: PURPLE COLOR. ACCORDING TO CURATOR OF OCEANIA ETHNOLOGY, ADRIENNE KAEPPLER, THIS PIECE WAS MADE FROM THE BARK OF THE PAPER MULBERRY AND COLORED WITH BLUING BALLS. PAPER TAG WITH OBJECT: "MADE FROM THE BARK OF EITHER THE PAPER MULBERRY, BROUSSONETIA PAPYRIFERA OR THE MAMAKE, PIPTURUS GAUDECHANDIANUS. BEATEN WITH AN EMBOSSED" (INCISED) "MALLET WITH RHOMBOID FIGURE PRODUCING THE FIGURED EFFECT. PRESENTED BY MR. J.S. EMERSON [Joseph Swift Emerson] OF HONOLULU TO LIEUT. W.E. SAFFORD [William Edwin Safford], USN, 1888."
label: Notes
content: Object was on display in National Museum of Natural History exhibit "Na Mea Makamae o Hawai'i - Hawaiian Treasures", 2004-2005.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 24 May 2024
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: 390913
label: USNM Number
content: E426035-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 152.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 61 cm