Tapa Cloth
date: label: Accession Date
content: 6 Mar 2018
name: label: Donor Name
content: Penelope Brook
notes: label: Notes
content: Natural off-white color, with very fine black (ink?) lines and some shapes filled in with light brown paint. Large center rectangle of fine cross-hatched lines, with thicker zig-zag lines across the diagonal. Center rectangle is surrounded on three sides by several borders, each with a different geometric pattern, some with cross-hatching and some with triangles. The third side of the rectangle is solid dark brown. Adrienne Kaeppler, NMNH curator, says that this is rare piece, an apron of a type called "salutasi".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 May 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Futuna Islands, Wallis and Futuna, France, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Futunan
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2082127
label: USNM Number
content: E435345-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth
physicalDescription: label: Maximum Length
content: 154 cm
label: Maximum Width
content: 72 cm