Piece Of Tapa
date: label: Accession Date
content: 26 Oct 1874
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: Major William Rich
label: Collector
content: United States Exploring Expedition
label: Donor Name
content: Prof Spencer F. Baird
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "15090-8. INVENTORIED 1975."
label: Notes
content: 15090 - 15098 originally catalogued as just Polynesian. An unknown person pencilled in Hawaii? at a later date.
label: Notes
content: Design of alternating bands of narrow and wide brown stripes.
label: Notes
content: This tapa is a fairly thin bark cloth with a crisscross beater mark pattern. It is a finely and even beaten bark cloth. The color is medium brown with darker brown stripes, of varying widths, running in the long direction. The wider stripes are approximately 25 mm in width and the narrower stripes are approximately 4 mm in width. There is a missing section out of one corner which measures approximately 2 cm x 7 cm.
label: Notes
content: This object is stored rolled.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Hawaii (Hawaiʻi), United States, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 74A00057
label: USNM Number
content: E15094-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 340 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 242 cm