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: FINE PIECE OF TRIANGULARLY WATERMARKED LIGHT TAN BARK CLOTH WITH A BORDER DECORATION COMPOSED OF FINE PARALLEL LINES WITH DOTS INSIDE. THE CENTRAL PORTION OF THE PIECE HAS PATTERNS IN DARK AND LIGHT BROWN DOTS. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE # TAG. EXAMINED AND SAMPLED BY KENNETH P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, JUNE 1941. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. EXHIBITED SITES "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS," 1987-89.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "3483-89. PRINTED IN FIGURES, IMITATING EUROPEAN GOODS. CAT. 3484. ORIG. 841. TAPA, HAWAII. KAUAI. SAMPLE TAKEN BY K. P. EMORY, 6/24/41."
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue for numbers 838 to 846 identifies them as "Tapa," cloth made of bark; printed and colored in imitation of foreign patterns by natives of Kauai, Hawaiian Islands."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kauai (Kauaʻi) Island, 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: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3484-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 76 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 74 cm