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: FAIRLY COARSE AND STIFF YELLOWISH-TAN BARK CLOTH WITH A NARROW PARALLEL LINE WATERMARK. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. EXAMINED AND SAMPLED BY KENNETH P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, JUNE 1941. THE OLD CATALOGUE CARD NOTES THAT EMORY THOUGHT THIS PIECE SEEMED MORE LIKE HAWAIIAN "MAMEKE" BARK CLOTH.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "3439-51. CAT. 3440, ORIG. 1005. TAPA, FAIRLY STIFF, FINE PARALLEL (5'8" X 5'4") WATER-MARK LINES, LIKE HAWAIIAN MAMAKE TAPA. HAWAII. ORIG. LABEL. "993-1054 'TAPA' CLOTH MADE OF BARK AND USED FOR DRESSES AND CURTAINS BY THE NATIVES OF THE SAMOAN ISLAND." SAMPLE TAKEN BY K.P. EMORY, 6/24/41. CASE 22, TOP.
label: Notes
content: Almost square piece of undecorated coarse bark cloth, made in one layer, with no piecing noted. Thought could be made from breadfruit fiber. Medium brown in color and having a raw linen-like appearance. Two opposite edges are finished and other two opposite edges appear cut. There is a 19 x 27 cm missing piece that appears to be cut from the bark cloth at the corner on one of the cut edges. Catalogue card indicates Kenneth P. Emory took a sample in 1941 and perhaps this is it. There is a second small square loss with cut edges along this same side of bark cloth that measures 4 x 5 cm. 17 cm away from this is a third 1 cm x 1 cm removed piece.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: American Samoa (not certain) / Hawaii (Hawaiʻi) (not certain), Samoa (not certain) / United States (not certain), Polynesia (not certain)
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Samoan (?)
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: E3440-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 183 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 143 cm